Park · New York
McDonald Playground
McDonald Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Lady Moody Triangle, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 16 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.60074, -73.97193
- 16.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 17.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Lady Moody Triangle: 0.3 mi
- Mickey Kairey Garden: 0.3 mi
- Gravesend Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Avenue R Mall: 0.5 mi
- Ketchum Triangle: 0.6 mi
Gardens
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 0.8 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Dana Borell Garden: 2.2 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 2.2 mi
Artworks
- Hulk: 0.9 mi
- Mother Teresa Statue: 1.1 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 1.3 mi
- Tagging Robot: 1.6 mi
- K. 159: 1.8 mi
Attractions
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 1.3 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 1.3 mi
- Sideshows by the Seashore: 1.8 mi
- Sharks: 1.8 mi
- The Tickler: 1.8 mi
Historic sites
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 1.5 mi
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 1.6 mi
- To All Veterans, Living or Dead: 1.6 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 1.8 mi
Beaches
- Coney Island Beach: 2.0 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 2.2 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 2.6 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 2.7 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 4.8 mi
Museums
- Living Torah Museum: 2.4 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 3.2 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 3.4 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 4.0 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 4.2 mi
Nature reserves
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.5 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.9 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 4.2 mi
- Swinburne Island: 4.8 mi
- Rookery: 5.3 mi
Peaks: 48
- Lookout Hill: 3.9 mi
- Battle Hill: 4.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 4.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 4.2 mi
- Willink Hill: 4.2 mi
Picnic sites: 37
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.7 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.7 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.9 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 7.8 mi
- Freedom Field: 8.0 mi
Cliffs: 13
- Palisades: 10.5 mi
- Palisades: 12.0 mi
- Palisades: 14.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 16.1 mi
- Hawk Hill: 20.0 mi
Waterfalls: 9
- Fallkill Falls: 4.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 4.4 mi
- The Loch: 13.4 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 19.6 mi
Lighthouses: 9
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 9.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 9.7 mi
- North Tower: 14.1 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 14.1 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 15.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 15.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.8 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 15.8 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.5 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of McDonald Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 316° | 179 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 306° | 175 m | 20.4 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 308° | 134 m | 23.6 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 270° | 125 m | 7.5 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 218° | 120 m | 18.3 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 217° | 106 m | 17.7 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 52° | 106 m | 22.2 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 298° | 92 m | 20.0 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.
- Rock Pigeon201 obs
- European Starling138 obs
- Ring-billed Gull124 obs
- American Herring Gull100 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly96 obs
- Laughing Gull92 obs
- Mourning Dove90 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron90 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/543732195
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