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Sy Seplowe Playground

Sy Seplowe Playground from directly overhead

Sy Seplowe Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 26 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Admiral Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 7.9 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
26 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.77111, -73.73750

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Admiral Park: 0.0 mi
  • Lakeville Park: 0.3 mi
  • Glenwood Landing: 0.3 mi
  • Udell's Cove: 0.3 mi
  • Alameda Malls: 0.5 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 0.9 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 3.7 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 3.8 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 3.9 mi
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 4.8 mi
Historic sites
Peaks
  • Queens High Point: 1.3 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 5.5 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 8.9 mi
  • Janes Hill: 9.5 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 10.1 mi
Gardens
  • Cloverdale Gardens at Bayside: 1.7 mi
  • Mitchel Wallace Triangle: 1.7 mi
  • House Beautiful: 2.0 mi
  • The Estates at Bayside: 2.0 mi
  • Pollinator Place: 2.0 mi
Museums
Attractions
  • Welcome Center: 4.8 mi
  • Circle Garden: 4.9 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 4.9 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 4.9 mi
  • Unity Garden: 4.9 mi
Picnic sites: 34
  • Accessible Picnic Area: 8.1 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 8.6 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 8.6 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 8.7 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 8.7 mi
Cliffs: 13
Lighthouses: 7
Waterfalls: 5
  • The Falls: 9.7 mi
  • The Loch: 11.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 14.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 14.4 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Sy Seplowe Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount NeboNNW 333°208 m21.6 mi
Reynolds HillN 356°180 m23.2 mi
Cooney HillN 1°170 m22.8 mi
Kennelwood HillN 357°156 m20.5 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 346°147 m22.7 mi
Beaver HillNNW 347°140 m21.0 mi
Hackley HillNNW 344°140 m21.6 mi
Tappan HillNNW 344°127 m21.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536271777569584840
Precip in3.73.04.43.83.13.84.03.94.14.03.44.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 7 mi away.

  • garlic mustard364 obs
  • common mugwort363 obs
  • common milkweed341 obs
  • common reed290 obs
  • eastern poison ivy281 obs
  • multiflora rose281 obs
  • Canada Goose258 obs
  • Mallard247 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357639538

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