Sgt. William Dougherty Playground
Sgt. William Dougherty Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 14 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Tadeusz Kosciusko, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 7.7 miles off. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 7.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 25.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Tadeusz Kosciusko: 0.1 mi
- Teddy Orzechowski: 0.3 mi
- Greenpoint World War I Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Society of St. Mary of the Snow: 0.5 mi
- Cooper Park: 0.5 mi
- Fidelity Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Monsignor McGolrick Park: 0.3 mi
- Frost Playground: 0.4 mi
- Holy Name Square: 0.5 mi
- Lentol Garden: 0.5 mi
- The Monitor and the Merrimac: 0.3 mi
- 9/11: 0.7 mi
- Deluge of Movement: 0.9 mi
- Virgin Mary: 0.9 mi
- Prayer: 0.9 mi
- Paul Clinton Garden: 0.4 mi
- Red Shed Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Garden Table: 0.6 mi
- Orient Grove: 0.6 mi
- Memorial Gore: 0.7 mi
- Museum of Food and Drink: 0.7 mi
- The City Reliquary: 1.2 mi
- The Bone Museum: 1.2 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 1.3 mi
- Underpenny Museum Antique & Collectables: 1.6 mi
- Laurel Hill: 0.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.1 mi
- Vista Rock: 4.2 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 4.4 mi
- Summit Rock: 4.5 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 0.9 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 1.7 mi
- Pepsi-Cola Sign: 2.0 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 2.0 mi
- Freedom plaza: 2.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.3 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.6 mi
- Bird Island: 3.8 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.6 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 7.6 mi
- Pebble Beach: 3.1 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.2 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 3.8 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.0 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 4.8 mi
- Street Seats: 1.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 3.7 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 3.9 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.6 mi
- Palisades: 5.4 mi
- Palisades: 5.7 mi
- Palisades: 6.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.5 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 4.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.6 mi
- The Loch: 5.1 mi
- The Falls: 12.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 4.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.9 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 18.4 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 18.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.6 mi
- Barber: 21.5 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 23.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sgt. William Dougherty Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 321° | 268 m | 21.9 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 320° | 260 m | 22.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 321° | 230 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 1° | 208 m | 22.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 319° | 185 m | 23.3 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 319° | 180 m | 23.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 291° | 179 m | 17.2 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 281° | 175 m | 18.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| 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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 4 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven1,170 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly928 obs
- common mugwort607 obs
- Rock Pigeon463 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee405 obs
- House Sparrow402 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod347 obs
- American Robin345 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/720392297
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 1 mi
- Queens · 2 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 3 mi
- Downstate New York · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 3 mi
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