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Lawrence Triangle

Lawrence Triangle from directly overhead

Lawrence Triangle is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Murray Hill Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.6 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
17 m

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.75584, -73.81567

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
Attractions
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 0.7 mi
  • Circle Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Pinetum: 0.7 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 0.7 mi
  • Unity Garden: 0.7 mi
Historic sites
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 3.4 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 6.3 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 7.2 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 7.3 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 7.3 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Maspeth Plateau: 4.7 mi
  • Queens High Point: 5.1 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 5.9 mi
  • Janes Hill: 6.3 mi
  • Mount Morris: 7.5 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 18
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.4 mi
  • Palisades: 9.9 mi
  • Palisades: 10.8 mi
  • Palisades: 11.5 mi
  • Palisades: 11.9 mi
Waterfalls: 9
  • The Loch: 8.0 mi
  • The Falls: 9.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 10.4 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 24.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.2 miles of Lawrence Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 344°208 m21.1 mi
Stony HillW 280°179 m22.7 mi
Cooney HillN 10°170 m24.2 mi
Kennelwood HillN 8°156 m21.7 mi
Kykuit HillN 356°147 m23.1 mi
Beaver HillN 358°140 m21.5 mi
Hackley HillN 356°140 m21.9 mi
Tappan HillN 355°127 m22.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 4 mi away.

  • Eastern Gray Squirrel384 obs
  • American Robin288 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly271 obs
  • Rock Pigeon267 obs
  • Mallard267 obs
  • common mugwort260 obs
  • Canada Goose196 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird192 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/425627323

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