Lafayette Playground
Lafayette Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Scarangella Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 16.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Scarangella Park: 0.1 mi
- Meucci Square: 0.1 mi
- Marlboro Playground: 0.3 mi
- Cutinella Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Anthony Catanzaro Square: 0.5 mi
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 0.9 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 1.1 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 1.5 mi
- Dana Borell Garden: 2.5 mi
- Tagging Robot: 1.1 mi
- Hulk: 1.3 mi
- Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese Monument: 1.4 mi
- K. 159: 1.4 mi
- Mother Teresa Statue: 1.5 mi
- To All Veterans, Living or Dead: 1.2 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 1.4 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Sideshows by the Seashore: 1.4 mi
- The Tickler: 1.4 mi
- Thunder Bolt: 1.4 mi
- Coney Island Cyclone: 1.4 mi
- Wonder Wheel: 1.5 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 1.5 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 2.5 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 2.9 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 3.3 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 4.3 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 2.6 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 2.8 mi
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum: 3.9 mi
- Mont Sec House: 3.9 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 4.1 mi
- Swinburne Island: 3.9 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 4.2 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 4.4 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 4.7 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 5.1 mi
- Battle Hill: 4.3 mi
- Lookout Hill: 4.4 mi
- Breeze Hill: 4.6 mi
- Quaker Hill: 4.6 mi
- Willink Hill: 4.8 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.0 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.2 mi
- Freedom Field: 8.0 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 8.6 mi
- Palisades: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 12.3 mi
- Palisades: 14.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 16.6 mi
- Hawk Hill: 19.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 4.9 mi
- The Loch: 13.9 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 19.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 9.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 9.2 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.4 mi
- North Tower: 13.7 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 13.7 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 14.8 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 14.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 16.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.7 mi
- Barber: 15.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lafayette Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 318° | 179 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 308° | 175 m | 20.1 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 310° | 134 m | 23.3 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 287° | 126 m | 24.8 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 273° | 125 m | 6.8 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 217° | 120 m | 17.5 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 215° | 106 m | 17.0 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 52° | 106 m | 23.0 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 | 16:33 |
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, under a mile away.
- Laughing Gull325 obs
- Ring-billed Gull283 obs
- American Herring Gull271 obs
- Rock Pigeon252 obs
- European Starling151 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull137 obs
- Brant129 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab113 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/697706699
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 7 mi
- Bayonne · 8 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 8 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 8 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 8 mi
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