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Louis Armstrong Playground

Louis Armstrong Playground from directly overhead

Louis Armstrong Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Hinton Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.9 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.75483, -73.85534
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
Attractions
  • Rocket Park: 0.5 mi
  • Aviary: 0.7 mi
  • Owl: 0.7 mi
  • Canadian Lynx: 0.7 mi
  • Roosevelt Elk: 0.7 mi
Peaks
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 3.9 mi
  • Janes Hill: 4.9 mi
  • Mount Morris: 5.7 mi
  • Great Hill: 6.1 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.3 mi
  • Parsons Beach: 5.4 mi
  • Pebble Beach: 7.9 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 8.5 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 19
  • Coogan's Bluff: 6.9 mi
  • Palisades: 8.0 mi
  • Palisades: 8.7 mi
  • Palisades: 9.9 mi
  • Palisades: 10.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Loch: 6.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 8.6 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 8.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 8.9 mi
  • The Falls: 9.3 mi
Lighthouses: 8
Rest areas: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 310°268 m23.3 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 309°230 m23.1 mi
Mount NeboN 350°208 m20.7 mi
Stony HillW 281°179 m20.7 mi
Mayapple HillW 273°175 m22.7 mi
Kennelwood HillNNE 13°156 m22.2 mi
Kykuit HillN 1°147 m23.1 mi
Packanack MountainWNW 301°144 m23.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

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, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • tree-of-heaven404 obs
  • Rock Pigeon313 obs
  • Mallard206 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel202 obs
  • House Sparrow200 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly191 obs
  • American Robin167 obs
  • European Starling158 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/277477831

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