Park · New York
Tucker Place
Tucker Place is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 0 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Shore Boulevard Mall, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.58353, -73.94146
- 17.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 18.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Shore Boulevard Mall: 0.2 mi
- Sheepshead Playground: 0.4 mi
- Jerzee Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Manhattan Beach Park: 0.5 mi
- Lew Fidler Park: 0.5 mi
Gardens
- Dana Borell Garden: 0.4 mi
- KCC Urban Farm: 0.5 mi
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 1.6 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 2.6 mi
Historic sites
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Col. John B. O'Dowd Memorial Plaque: 1.6 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 1.6 mi
- September 11th Victims Memorial: 1.8 mi
Beaches
- Manhattan Beach: 0.5 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 0.6 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 1.0 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 2.2 mi
- Fort Tilden Beach: 3.1 mi
Artworks
- Fisherman: 0.7 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 0.7 mi
- Giant Squid: 1.6 mi
- First Symphony of the Sea: 1.9 mi
- K. 159: 1.9 mi
Attractions
- Sharks: 1.8 mi
- Sea Cliffs: 1.9 mi
- Conservation Hall: 1.9 mi
- Glover's Reef: 1.9 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 2.0 mi
Nature reserves
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 2.2 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 2.3 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 2.7 mi
- Rookery: 4.3 mi
- Swinburne Island: 5.8 mi
Museums
- Ryan Visitor Center: 2.4 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 3.2 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 4.1 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 4.6 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 5.1 mi
Peaks: 48
- Lookout Hill: 5.4 mi
- Breeze Hill: 5.4 mi
- Willink Hill: 5.5 mi
- Quaker Hill: 5.6 mi
- Battle Hill: 5.7 mi
Picnic sites: 32
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.3 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.4 mi
- Freedom Field: 9.9 mi
Cliffs: 12
- Palisades: 12.3 mi
- Palisades: 13.5 mi
- Palisades: 15.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 17.2 mi
- Palisades: 21.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 9.0 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 9.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.9 mi
- North Tower: 13.1 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 13.1 mi
Waterfalls: 8
- Binnen Falls: 5.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.8 mi
- The Loch: 14.6 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 21.5 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 17.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 17.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 17.2 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.6 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 17.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.3 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 21.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tucker Place. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 315° | 179 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 306° | 175 m | 22.4 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 277° | 125 m | 9.2 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 224° | 120 m | 18.4 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 223° | 106 m | 17.8 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 47° | 106 m | 21.7 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 299° | 92 m | 22.0 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 5° | 85 m | 21.8 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 | 16:33 |
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, 2 mi away.
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab952 obs
- Laughing Gull293 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron269 obs
- Ring-billed Gull264 obs
- American Herring Gull261 obs
- Brant241 obs
- Osprey240 obs
- Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab239 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/623688903
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