Park · New York
Power Playground
Power Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Trust Triangle, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 14 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.61815, -73.92726
- 14.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 16.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Trust Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Commander Eugene S Sarsfield Playground: 0.6 mi
- Monsignor Crawford Field: 0.6 mi
- Jacob Joffe Fields: 0.6 mi
- Fraser Square: 0.7 mi
Gardens
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Association Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- KCC Urban Farm: 2.7 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 2.8 mi
- Q Gardens: 2.9 mi
Historic sites
- Dutch Heritage: 1.0 mi
- Col. John B. O'Dowd Memorial Plaque: 1.1 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 1.6 mi
- FDR Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 2.3 mi
Attractions
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 1.4 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 1.4 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 1.8 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 3.2 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 3.3 mi
Nature reserves
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 1.6 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 1.9 mi
- Rookery: 2.7 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 4.4 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 4.6 mi
Artworks
- Horse: 1.7 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 2.0 mi
- Fisherman: 2.2 mi
- Now & Then: 2.4 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 2.5 mi
Beaches
- Gerritsen Beach: 2.2 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 2.2 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 3.0 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 3.1 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 4.2 mi
Museums
- Ryan Visitor Center: 2.6 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 2.7 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 2.8 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 3.0 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 3.6 mi
Peaks: 47
- Breeze Hill: 3.5 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.6 mi
- Lookout Hill: 3.6 mi
- Quaker Hill: 3.8 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 3.9 mi
Picnic sites: 35
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 5.4 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.6 mi
- Freedom Field: 8.8 mi
Cliffs: 14
- Palisades: 10.6 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- Palisades: 13.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 14.8 mi
- Palisades: 18.9 mi
Lighthouses: 9
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 11.5 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 11.5 mi
- North Tower: 15.6 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 15.6 mi
Waterfalls: 8
- Binnen Falls: 3.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.9 mi
- The Loch: 12.3 mi
- The Falls: 19.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.2 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 18.4 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.5 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 21.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Power Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 309° | 179 m | 21.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 300° | 175 m | 21.7 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 303° | 134 m | 24.8 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 263° | 125 m | 9.9 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 221° | 120 m | 20.7 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 50° | 106 m | 19.6 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 220° | 106 m | 20.1 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 292° | 92 m | 21.6 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 | 19:49 | 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, 3 mi away.
- common mugwort294 obs
- red deadnettle261 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly255 obs
- Osprey230 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron219 obs
- common milkweed217 obs
- American Robin194 obs
- European Starling162 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/1132386874
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 6 mi
- Queens · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 7 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 7 mi
- Downstate New York · 8 mi
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