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Sternberg Park

Sternberg Park from directly overhead

Sternberg Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Lindsay Triangle, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.0 miles off. 58 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
6 m

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.70628, -73.94741

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
  • Scholes Street Children’s Garden: 0.2 mi
  • George Washington Carver Community Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Ten Eyck Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Hooper Grove: 0.3 mi
  • Oko Farms Aquaponics Education Garden: 0.4 mi
Museums
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Prayer: 0.7 mi
  • Virgin Mary: 0.7 mi
  • Brooklyn: 0.8 mi
  • 9/11: 0.9 mi
  • Boar: 1.0 mi
Attractions
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 2.3 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.0 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.2 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.4 mi
Peaks: 58
  • Laurel Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 3.1 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.4 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 5.6 mi
  • Palisades: 5.8 mi
  • Palisades: 7.5 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.8 mi
  • Palisades: 12.8 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.3 mi
  • The Loch: 6.1 mi
  • The Falls: 13.8 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 324°268 m22.5 mi
Beech MountainNW 323°260 m23.5 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 324°230 m22.2 mi
Mount NeboN 3°208 m23.7 mi
Poacher PeakNW 322°185 m23.9 mi
Moon HillNW 322°180 m23.6 mi
Stony HillWNW 295°179 m17.1 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 285°175 m18.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
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 °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly952 obs
  • Monarch682 obs
  • tree-of-heaven680 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee636 obs
  • common mugwort524 obs
  • Rock Pigeon504 obs
  • Western Honey Bee424 obs
  • Mourning Dove419 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/553286421

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