Israel Putnam Playground
Israel Putnam Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 19 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Hancock Neighborhood Block Association - Garden of Hope, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 10 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 19 m
How to reach it
- 10.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 11.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 27.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Hancock Neighborhood Block Association - Garden of Hope: 0.2 mi
- First Quincy Street Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Feeding Tree Garden: 0.3 mi
- Shiloh Garden: 0.3 mi
- Hancock T & T Block Association Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Shai Asia Semple: 0.2 mi
- Tiger: 0.4 mi
- Mathematical Star: 0.5 mi
- Yusuf Hawkins: 0.6 mi
- Robert Fulton: 0.6 mi
- Hattie Carthan Playground: 0.3 mi
- Potomac Playground: 0.4 mi
- Decatur Playground: 0.4 mi
- Kosciuszko Street Garden: 0.4 mi
- Herbert Von King Park: 0.4 mi
- Brooklyn College of Pharmacy: 0.6 mi
- Adam Uster: 0.9 mi
- Leah E. Sylvain: 0.9 mi
- Ulysses S Grant: 1.0 mi
- Saratoga Park Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 0.9 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.1 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 1.2 mi
- The Bone Museum: 1.3 mi
- Brooklyn Museum: 1.6 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 1.8 mi
- Sea Lion Store & Cafe: 1.9 mi
- Sea Lion Pool: 1.9 mi
- Hall of Animals: 2.0 mi
- Animal Lifestyles: 2.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 2.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 3.2 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.1 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 4.9 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.2 mi
- Bird Island: 3.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.2 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 5.1 mi
- Rookery: 5.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.8 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 2.1 mi
- Willink Hill: 2.1 mi
- Breeze Hill: 2.3 mi
- Quaker Hill: 2.4 mi
- Lookout Hill: 2.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 3.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 3.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 3.2 mi
- Street Seats: 4.4 mi
- Freedom Field: 6.3 mi
- Palisades: 6.7 mi
- Palisades: 7.2 mi
- Palisades: 8.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 10.1 mi
- Palisades: 14.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 2.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 2.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 2.4 mi
- The Loch: 7.6 mi
- The Falls: 14.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 15.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 15.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 19.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 19.2 mi
- Barber: 19.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 23.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Israel Putnam Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 326° | 268 m | 23.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 325° | 260 m | 24.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 325° | 230 m | 23.6 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 324° | 180 m | 24.9 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 299° | 179 m | 18.1 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 288° | 175 m | 19.2 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 317° | 144 m | 23.1 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 293° | 134 m | 22.0 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 | 15:48 | 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 7 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly718 obs
- American Robin650 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee546 obs
- Rock Pigeon502 obs
- Mourning Dove449 obs
- House Sparrow442 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel432 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee429 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/253908446
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 2 mi
- Queens · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 3 mi
- Downstate New York · 4 mi
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