Nostrand Playground
Nostrand Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Green street, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 13.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Green street: 0.4 mi
- Paerdegat Park: 0.5 mi
- Campus Road Tot Lot: 0.7 mi
- Chiarantano Playground: 0.8 mi
- Amersfort Park: 0.8 mi
- Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Association Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Q Gardens: 1.2 mi
- Caton Migration Garden: 1.2 mi
- Umma Park: 1.3 mi
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 1.3 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 0.8 mi
- FDR Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 1.3 mi
- K.S.: 1.4 mi
- Prospect Park War Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Now & Then: 0.9 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 0.9 mi
- Dragon Fountain: 1.6 mi
- Mother Teresa Statue: 2.3 mi
- Hulk: 2.4 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 0.9 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 1.8 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 2.0 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 2.1 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 2.4 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 1.5 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 1.5 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 1.6 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 1.8 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 1.9 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.2 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 3.8 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 4.3 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 4.3 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.7 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.4 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.6 mi
- Rookery: 4.0 mi
- Bird Island: 4.9 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 5.1 mi
- Breeze Hill: 1.8 mi
- Willink Hill: 1.8 mi
- Lookout Hill: 1.9 mi
- Quaker Hill: 2.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 2.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 4.9 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.6 mi
- Freedom Field: 7.1 mi
- Palisades: 8.8 mi
- Palisades: 9.9 mi
- Palisades: 12.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 13.5 mi
- Palisades: 17.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 1.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 2.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 2.1 mi
- The Loch: 10.8 mi
- The Falls: 18.2 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 12.5 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 12.5 mi
- North Tower: 16.8 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 16.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.5 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 17.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 17.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.5 mi
- Barber: 17.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 23.2 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Nostrand Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 308° | 179 m | 19.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 298° | 175 m | 20.1 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 301° | 134 m | 23.1 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 254° | 125 m | 9.2 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 216° | 120 m | 21.1 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 55° | 106 m | 19.6 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 215° | 106 m | 20.6 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 290° | 92 m | 20.1 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 | 16:32 |
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 | 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, 4 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee810 obs
- Pond Slider806 obs
- Wood Duck636 obs
- Mute Swan623 obs
- Mallard623 obs
- Canada Goose580 obs
- American Coot520 obs
- American Robin511 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/266065015
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Downstate New York · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 6 mi
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