Greenwood Playground
Greenwood Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Prospect Avenue Sitting Area, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 17 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 13.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Prospect Avenue Sitting Area: 0.1 mi
- East Fourth Street Garden: 0.1 mi
- Sherman Street Park: 0.1 mi
- Captain John McKenna IV Park: 0.2 mi
- Machate Circle: 0.2 mi
- East Fourth Street Garden: 0.1 mi
- Prospect Farm: 0.3 mi
- Q Gardens: 0.7 mi
- Caton Migration Garden: 0.7 mi
- Umma Park: 0.8 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 0.4 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 0.8 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 0.9 mi
- Carousel: 1.1 mi
- Porcupine: 1.1 mi
- K.S.: 0.6 mi
- James B. Warden: 0.6 mi
- Maryland 400 Monument: 0.7 mi
- Prospect Park War Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 0.8 mi
- Civic Virtue Triumphant Over Unrighteousness: 0.7 mi
- Dragon Fountain: 0.9 mi
- Bees for Sunset Park: 1.0 mi
- Bees for Sunset Park: 1.0 mi
- Now & Then: 1.0 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 0.8 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 1.0 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 1.0 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 1.2 mi
- Brooklyn Museum: 1.6 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 2.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 3.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 3.8 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 4.9 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 5.1 mi
- Bird Island: 3.4 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 5.0 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 5.3 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 5.6 mi
- Rookery: 5.7 mi
- Lookout Hill: 0.6 mi
- Quaker Hill: 0.8 mi
- Breeze Hill: 0.8 mi
- Battle Hill: 0.8 mi
- Willink Hill: 1.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 3.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 3.5 mi
- Freedom Field: 5.4 mi
- Street Seats: 7.1 mi
- Palisades: 7.3 mi
- Palisades: 8.6 mi
- Palisades: 11.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 12.8 mi
- Palisades: 16.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 0.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 1.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 1.0 mi
- The Loch: 10.0 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 17.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 6.0 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 13.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 13.1 mi
- North Tower: 17.5 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 17.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 12.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 16.3 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 16.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.8 mi
- Barber: 16.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Greenwood Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 332° | 268 m | 25.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NNW 332° | 230 m | 24.7 mi |
| Stony Hill | NW 309° | 179 m | 17.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 298° | 175 m | 18.4 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 324° | 144 m | 23.8 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 301° | 134 m | 21.4 mi |
| Long Hill | W 278° | 126 m | 24.4 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 245° | 125 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 4 mi away.
- American Robin2,061 obs
- Pond Slider1,746 obs
- Red-tailed Hawk1,699 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,546 obs
- Northern Cardinal1,489 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,461 obs
- House Sparrow1,342 obs
- Mallard1,288 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/362126672
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Downstate New York · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 5 mi
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