Hoffman Island
Hoffman Island is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is South Beach, a beach 0.9 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 19 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
A quarantine island, John T. Hoffman, who served as mayor of New York City before becoming New York Governor in 1869.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 19.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 28.1 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- South Beach: 0.9 mi
- Midland Beach: 1.6 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 2.5 mi
- New Dorp Beach: 2.6 mi
- Cedar Grove Beach: 3.0 mi
- Swinburne Island: 0.9 mi
- New Creek Bluebelt: 2.0 mi
- Last Chance Pond Park: 2.4 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 2.6 mi
- Saint Francis Woodlands: 3.4 mi
- South Beach: 1.0 mi
- St. Anne: 3.4 mi
- St. Anthony: 3.5 mi
- Eyes: 3.5 mi
- Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument: 3.6 mi
- Playland Playground: 1.0 mi
- South Beach: 1.0 mi
- Ocean Breeze: 1.0 mi
- Ocean Breeze Park: 1.3 mi
- Midland Beach: 1.5 mi
- Battery Ayres: 1.3 mi
- Battery Richmond: 1.4 mi
- Battery Dix: 1.4 mi
- Battery Barry: 1.4 mi
- Battery Upton: 1.5 mi
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum: 1.7 mi
- Mont Sec House: 1.9 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 2.4 mi
- Alice Austen House: 2.5 mi
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: 2.7 mi
- Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House: 2.6 mi
- Jurassic Park: 3.1 mi
- The Gingerbread House: 3.5 mi
- Endeavor: 3.8 mi
- Sideshows by the Seashore: 3.9 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 3.1 mi
- Hill Street Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- Compost and Community Garden: 3.2 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 3.5 mi
- Fox Hills: 2.7 mi
- Emerson Hill: 2.9 mi
- Park Hill: 3.0 mi
- Signal Hill: 3.3 mi
- Todt Hill: 3.5 mi
- Freedom Field: 8.1 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.5 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.7 mi
- Linden Airport mini-park: 10.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.3 mi
- Palisades: 13.3 mi
- Palisades: 16.2 mi
- Hawk Hill: 17.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.4 mi
- The Loch: 15.7 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 17.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 8.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.2 mi
- North Tower: 13.1 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 13.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 11.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 11.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 16.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.2 mi
- Barber: 11.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 18.8 mi
- Raritan Landing: 21.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 17.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Hoffman Island. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NNW 328° | 179 m | 18.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 318° | 175 m | 18.2 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 318° | 134 m | 21.4 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 292° | 126 m | 21.8 mi |
| Todt Hill | WNW 295° | 125 m | 3.5 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 208° | 120 m | 14.7 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSW 206° | 106 m | 14.2 mi |
| Nook Hill | NW 309° | 92 m | 17.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 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 | 16:33 |
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.
- Porcelain Berry113 obs
- Wild Turkey112 obs
- common mugwort90 obs
- smooth cliffbrake84 obs
- American Herring Gull64 obs
- Ring-billed Gull60 obs
- red deadnettle48 obs
- ebony spleenwort48 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/21807912
Day trips start here
- Staten Island · 5 mi
- Bayonne · 7 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 8 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 9 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 9 mi
- Downstate New York · 10 mi
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