Park · New York
Hickman Playground
Hickman Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Bergen Beach Playground, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 14 miles off. 46 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.62041, -73.91295
- 14.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 16.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Bergen Beach Playground: 0.2 mi
- Cosmo Barone Triangle: 0.3 mi
- Monsignor Crawford Field: 0.5 mi
- Jacob Joffe Fields: 0.5 mi
- Lindower Park: 0.6 mi
Artworks
- Horse: 1.2 mi
- Fisherman: 2.5 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 2.6 mi
- Now & Then: 3.0 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 3.1 mi
Gardens
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 1.3 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 2.6 mi
- Newport Gardens: 2.7 mi
- Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Association Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Beach Grass Nursery: 2.8 mi
Historic sites
- Col. John B. O'Dowd Memorial Plaque: 1.4 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 1.5 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 2.4 mi
- FDR Memorial: 2.6 mi
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 1.4 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 1.5 mi
- Rookery: 2.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 4.6 mi
Beaches
- Canarsie Beach: 1.5 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 2.4 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 3.3 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 3.5 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 7: 4.3 mi
Attractions
- Wyckoff House Museum: 1.7 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 2.1 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 2.1 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 3.6 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 3.7 mi
Museums
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 2.4 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 2.4 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 3.1 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 3.7 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 3.7 mi
Peaks: 46
- Breeze Hill: 3.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.9 mi
- Lookout Hill: 4.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 4.2 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 4.3 mi
Picnic sites: 34
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 4.7 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.9 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.0 mi
- Street Seats: 9.1 mi
Cliffs: 14
- Palisades: 10.9 mi
- Palisades: 11.8 mi
- Palisades: 13.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 14.7 mi
- Palisades: 18.8 mi
Lighthouses: 9
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 11.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 11.9 mi
- North Tower: 15.9 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 15.9 mi
Waterfalls: 8
- Binnen Falls: 4.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 4.2 mi
- The Loch: 12.3 mi
- The Falls: 18.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.9 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.6 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Barber: 19.1 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Hickman Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 308° | 179 m | 21.8 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 298° | 175 m | 22.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 263° | 125 m | 10.7 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 222° | 120 m | 21.3 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 49° | 106 m | 18.9 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 221° | 106 m | 20.7 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 291° | 92 m | 22.2 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 1° | 85 m | 19.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:49 | 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.
- common mugwort286 obs
- red deadnettle254 obs
- Osprey233 obs
- common milkweed224 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron217 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly216 obs
- American Robin200 obs
- Porcelain Berry175 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/1133945335
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- Queens · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 7 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 7 mi
- Downstate New York · 8 mi
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