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Leonard Square

Leonard Square from directly overhead

Leonard Square is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 25 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Murray Hill Playground, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.3 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates40.76409, -73.80980

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Artworks
Gardens
Attractions
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 1.3 mi
  • Circle Garden: 1.3 mi
  • Pinetum: 1.3 mi
  • Oak Allée: 1.3 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 1.3 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 3.0 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 6.6 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 6.6 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.7 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 6.8 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 4.8 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 5.2 mi
  • Janes Hill: 6.3 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 6.4 mi
  • Mount Morris: 7.5 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 18
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.3 mi
  • Palisades: 10.0 mi
  • Palisades: 11.1 mi
  • Palisades: 11.2 mi
  • Palisades: 12.3 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Waterfalls: 7
  • The Loch: 8.1 mi
  • The Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.0 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.6 miles of Leonard Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 343°208 m20.6 mi
Stony HillW 278°179 m22.9 mi
Cooney HillN 10°170 m23.6 mi
Kennelwood HillN 7°156 m21.1 mi
Kykuit HillN 355°147 m22.6 mi
Beaver HillN 357°140 m21.0 mi
Hackley HillN 355°140 m21.4 mi
Tappan HillN 354°127 m21.4 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.

  • Spotted Lanternfly228 obs
  • common mugwort207 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel193 obs
  • American Robin186 obs
  • Mallard177 obs
  • Rock Pigeon173 obs
  • Wood Duck165 obs
  • Canada Goose164 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/554938633

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