Metro Triangle
Metro Triangle is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Eight Oaks Triangle, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.6 miles off. 53 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 21 m
How to reach it
- 8.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 12.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 24.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Eight Oaks Triangle: 0.2 mi
- courtyard: 0.3 mi
- Jacob Riis Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Maple Grove Park: 0.5 mi
- Manton Playground: 0.6 mi
- Egret: 0.3 mi
- The City Don't Sleep: 0.4 mi
- Absent Monuments: 1.2 mi
- Jamaica Center Station Riders: 1.4 mi
- Dolphin: 1.6 mi
- Richmond Hill Branch: 0.4 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Richmond Hill War Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Mast of Yacht Columbia: 1.3 mi
- Memorial to the Veterans of World War I of Forest Hills: 1.3 mi
- Veteran Memorial Garden Of Queens: 0.7 mi
- George Eagle Carr Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Dunton Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Paradise Community Garden NY: 1.5 mi
- Back To Eden Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- King Manor Museum: 1.2 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 2.3 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.9 mi
- Queens Museum: 3.1 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 3.2 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 1.6 mi
- Welcome Center: 2.2 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 2.8 mi
- Feltman Carousel: 2.9 mi
- Domestic Animals: 3.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 3.8 mi
- Hook Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 5.9 mi
- Rookery: 6.4 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 6.4 mi
- Virginia Point: 6.7 mi
- Parsons Beach: 6.0 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 6.1 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 7.3 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 8.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 8.6 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.4 mi
- Queens High Point: 6.7 mi
- Willink Hill: 7.8 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 8.0 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Area D: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Area C: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Area F: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Area G: 6.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 11.2 mi
- Palisades: 11.2 mi
- Palisades: 11.7 mi
- Palisades: 14.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.9 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 19.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 19.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.2 mi
- The Loch: 9.4 mi
- The Falls: 12.7 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Metro Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Nebo | NNW 348° | 208 m | 24.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 289° | 179 m | 23.1 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 281° | 175 m | 24.6 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 245° | 125 m | 16.8 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 70° | 122 m | 22.3 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 56° | 106 m | 11.8 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 69° | 106 m | 22.0 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 343° | 85 m | 14.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 6 mi away.
- garlic mustard304 obs
- Asian bittersweet293 obs
- Rock Pigeon289 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel259 obs
- American Robin218 obs
- common mugwort218 obs
- multiflora rose214 obs
- American jumpseed204 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/765986002
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 1 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 1 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 4 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
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