"Uncle" Vito E. Maranzano Glendale Playground
"Uncle" Vito E. Maranzano Glendale Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 28 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Glendale Veterans Triangle, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.2 miles off. 55 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 28 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 11.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 25.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Glendale Veterans Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Pinocchio Playground: 0.4 mi
- Drumn Circle: 0.5 mi
- Joseph F. Mafera Park: 0.5 mi
- Middle Village Playground: 0.6 mi
- Edward R Miller Square: 0.3 mi
- General Slocum Disaster Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Frank C. Prokop Square War Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Korean Square: 1.1 mi
- Pullis Farm Cemetery Historical Landmark: 1.2 mi
- Ridgewood Garden: 0.6 mi
- Korean Square: 1.1 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Garden: 1.3 mi
- Thomas X. Winberry Garden: 1.3 mi
- Ian MacLennan Garden: 1.5 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 1.4 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 2.7 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 2.9 mi
- Education Center: 3.1 mi
- Domestic Animals: 3.1 mi
- Dolphin: 1.4 mi
- Once Upon a Time/ Paper Jungle: 2.1 mi
- Shotgun Home (America): 2.1 mi
- Waking Blind: 2.1 mi
- African American Marbleization: 2.1 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.0 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 2.0 mi
- The Bone Museum: 2.9 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 3.1 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 3.3 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 3.9 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.5 mi
- Rookery: 5.9 mi
- Bird Island: 6.2 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.5 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 5.3 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 5.3 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.7 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 6.2 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.0 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.8 mi
- Willink Hill: 5.2 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 5.3 mi
- Breeze Hill: 5.4 mi
- Street Seats: 4.7 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.1 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.2 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.8 mi
- Palisades: 8.6 mi
- Palisades: 8.9 mi
- Palisades: 9.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 9.3 mi
- Palisades: 13.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 17.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 17.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.6 mi
- The Loch: 7.4 mi
- The Falls: 12.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 11.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.4 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.7 mi
- Barber: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of "Uncle" Vito E. Maranzano Glendale Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 318° | 268 m | 24.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 317° | 230 m | 24.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 354° | 208 m | 23.9 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 291° | 179 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 283° | 175 m | 21.8 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 310° | 144 m | 24.4 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 288° | 134 m | 24.4 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 240° | 125 m | 14.2 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 | 18:18 | 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 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly223 obs
- garlic mustard221 obs
- House Sparrow199 obs
- Japanese knotweed174 obs
- multiflora rose173 obs
- American Robin170 obs
- common mugwort168 obs
- Mourning Dove164 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/485881797
Day trips start here
- Queens · 2 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 3 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
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