Park · New York
Van Alst Playground
Van Alst Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Hellsgate Farms, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 4.7 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
Coordinates40.77061, -73.92822
- 4.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 6.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Gardens
- Hellsgate Farms: 0.2 mi
- Two Coves Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- Roosevelt Island Garden Club: 0.9 mi
- Moore Jackson Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Humacao Community Garden: 1.6 mi
Artworks
Parks
- Hallets Cove Playground: 0.3 mi
- Athens Square: 0.4 mi
- Triborough Bridge Playground B: 0.4 mi
- Triborough Bridge Playground D: 0.4 mi
- Triborough Bridge Playground E: 0.4 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 0.4 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.8 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 5.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.6 mi
- Hazard Beach: 6.0 mi
Museums
- The Noguchi Museum: 0.6 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.0 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 1.0 mi
- Garbage museum: 1.3 mi
- Mount Vernon Hotel Museum: 1.8 mi
Historic sites
- World War 1: 0.7 mi
- General Slocum Disaster: 0.7 mi
- Flight 587 November 12 2001 memorial: 0.9 mi
- Gelasio Reyes: 1.7 mi
- Saint Tikhon: 1.8 mi
Attractions
- Blackwell House: 1.4 mi
- Roosevelt Island Sign: 1.6 mi
- Eleanor Roosevelt High Residence: 1.8 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 1.9 mi
- Archibald’s Townhouse: 2.0 mi
Peaks
- Vista Rock: 2.2 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.4 mi
- Great Hill: 2.4 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.5 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 2.5 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.3 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.9 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 6.0 mi
- Bird Island: 6.3 mi
Picnic sites: 43
- Street Seats: 1.8 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.4 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.5 mi
Cliffs: 16
- Palisades: 4.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 4.3 mi
- Palisades: 4.9 mi
- Palisades: 6.3 mi
- Palisades: 8.4 mi
Waterfalls: 10
- The Loch: 2.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.9 mi
- The Falls: 9.3 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 6.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.4 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 21.7 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 14.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 24.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.8 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.6 miles of Van Alst Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 314° | 268 m | 19.7 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 314° | 260 m | 20.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 314° | 230 m | 19.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 0° | 208 m | 19.2 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 313° | 185 m | 21.3 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 313° | 180 m | 21.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 280° | 179 m | 16.7 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 271° | 175 m | 18.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven2,027 obs
- Rock Pigeon1,691 obs
- white snakeroot1,462 obs
- Box Sucker1,320 obs
- common mugwort1,097 obs
- Porcelain Berry1,093 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod1,092 obs
- common milkweed1,066 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/351276058
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