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Starr Playground

Starr Playground from directly overhead

Starr Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 19 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Sunset Community Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.2 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
19 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.70992, -73.91785
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Museums
Parks
Attractions
Historic sites
  • Bushwick-Ridgewood War Memorial: 0.8 mi
  • Korean Square: 0.8 mi
  • Ridgewood War Memorial: 0.9 mi
  • Leah E. Sylvain: 1.0 mi
  • Cooper Park: 1.1 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 3.8 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.2 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 4.4 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.3 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 5.7 mi
Peaks: 57
  • Laurel Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 1.8 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 4.1 mi
  • Willink Hill: 4.1 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 4.3 mi
Picnic sites: 43
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.8 mi
  • Palisades: 7.0 mi
  • Palisades: 7.8 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.6 mi
  • Palisades: 12.6 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Ambergill Falls: 4.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 4.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 4.4 mi
  • The Loch: 6.3 mi
  • The Falls: 13.0 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Starr Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 321°268 m23.2 mi
Beech MountainNW 320°260 m24.3 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 320°230 m23.0 mi
Mount NeboN 359°208 m23.4 mi
Poacher PeakNW 319°185 m24.7 mi
Moon HillNW 319°180 m24.4 mi
Stony HillWNW 293°179 m18.4 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 283°175 m19.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly437 obs
  • tree-of-heaven417 obs
  • common mugwort318 obs
  • Rock Pigeon299 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee242 obs
  • House Sparrow239 obs
  • white snakeroot205 obs
  • European Starling202 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/470031811

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