Heckscher Playground
Heckscher Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Hope Ballfield, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.2 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
How to reach it
- 9.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 11.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hope Ballfield: 0.2 mi
- Heisser Triangle: 0.3 mi
- Bushwick Playground: 0.3 mi
- Good Life Garden: 0.4 mi
- Irving Square Park: 0.5 mi
- Bushwick-Ridgewood War Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Leah E. Sylvain: 0.6 mi
- Saratoga Park Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Ridgewood War Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Korean Square: 1.1 mi
- Arboleda de Ninos/Children's Grove: 0.3 mi
- Know Waste Lands Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- The People's Garden: 0.4 mi
- Umoja Garden: 0.5 mi
- Patchen Avenue Garden: 0.6 mi
- Shai Asia Semple: 1.1 mi
- Robert Fulton: 1.3 mi
- Tiger: 1.5 mi
- Brooklyn: 1.7 mi
- Mathematical Star: 1.8 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 1.1 mi
- The Bone Museum: 1.2 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.5 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 2.0 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 2.2 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 1.3 mi
- Sea Lion Store & Cafe: 3.2 mi
- Sea Lion Pool: 3.2 mi
- Hall of Animals: 3.2 mi
- Duck and Waterfowl: 3.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.3 mi
- Bird Island: 4.2 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 4.5 mi
- Rookery: 5.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.8 mi
- Pebble Beach: 3.8 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 4.2 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 4.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 5.2 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 5.4 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.4 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.7 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.3 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 3.4 mi
- Breeze Hill: 3.5 mi
- Street Seats: 4.1 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 4.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.3 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.3 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 7.3 mi
- Palisades: 7.3 mi
- Palisades: 7.5 mi
- Palisades: 8.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 13.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 3.4 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.6 mi
- The Loch: 7.2 mi
- The Falls: 14.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 6.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 15.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 16.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 16.7 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.4 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.4 mi
- Barber: 21.1 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Heckscher Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 323° | 268 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 322° | 230 m | 23.8 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 359° | 208 m | 24.5 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 296° | 179 m | 18.8 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 286° | 175 m | 20.1 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 314° | 144 m | 23.5 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 291° | 134 m | 22.8 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 238° | 125 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 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 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 6 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly356 obs
- tree-of-heaven352 obs
- common mugwort277 obs
- Rock Pigeon246 obs
- princess tree228 obs
- white snakeroot170 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee169 obs
- American pokeweed151 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1069379857
Day trips start here
- Queens · 1 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 4 mi
- Manhattan/East Village · 4 mi
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