Paul W. Kolbert Park
Paul W. Kolbert Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Paul W. Kolbert Playground, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 15 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 9 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 14.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 16.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 0.0 mi
- FDR Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 1.2 mi
- Col. John B. O'Dowd Memorial Plaque: 2.1 mi
- Pope John Paul II: 2.2 mi
- Andries Playground: 0.6 mi
- Corporal Wiltshire Square: 0.7 mi
- Campus Road Tot Lot: 0.8 mi
- PFC Norton Playground: 0.8 mi
- Friends Field: 0.8 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 0.7 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 0.7 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 2.4 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 2.5 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 2.6 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 0.7 mi
- Mother Teresa Statue: 1.2 mi
- Hulk: 1.2 mi
- Now & Then: 1.4 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 2.3 mi
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 1.1 mi
- Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Association Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Q Gardens: 2.1 mi
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 2.2 mi
- East Fourth Street Garden: 2.2 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 1.6 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 2.0 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 3.1 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 3.1 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 3.5 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 3.0 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 3.1 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 3.3 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 3.5 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.8 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.0 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.4 mi
- Rookery: 4.3 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 4.9 mi
- Bird Island: 5.7 mi
- Lookout Hill: 2.7 mi
- Breeze Hill: 2.7 mi
- Willink Hill: 2.9 mi
- Quaker Hill: 2.9 mi
- Battle Hill: 3.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.8 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 7.0 mi
- Freedom Field: 7.5 mi
- Palisades: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 10.9 mi
- Palisades: 13.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 14.7 mi
- Palisades: 18.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 2.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.1 mi
- The Loch: 12.1 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 19.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.3 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 11.2 mi
- North Tower: 15.5 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 15.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 14.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 16.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 16.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.1 mi
- Barber: 16.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Paul W. Kolbert Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 312° | 179 m | 20.0 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 302° | 175 m | 20.3 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 304° | 134 m | 23.4 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 261° | 125 m | 8.3 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 217° | 120 m | 19.8 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 216° | 106 m | 19.2 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 53° | 106 m | 20.8 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 294° | 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, 2 mi away.
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee651 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle417 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly335 obs
- Western Honey Bee292 obs
- Thick-legged Hover Fly284 obs
- Ligated Furrow Bee268 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee256 obs
- Eurasian Drone Fly243 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/465985595
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 5 mi
- Queens · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 7 mi
- Downstate New York · 7 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 7 mi
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