Van Dyke Playground
Van Dyke Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Livonia Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 11 m
How to reach it
- 11.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 13.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 28.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Livonia Park: 0.1 mi
- Nehemiah Park: 0.2 mi
- Doctor Richard Greene Playground: 0.2 mi
- Floyd Patterson Ballfields: 0.2 mi
- Lion's Pride Park: 0.3 mi
- Powell Street Livonia Garden: 0.1 mi
- Newport Gardens: 0.4 mi
- McLeod's Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- First Temple of David: 0.7 mi
- Fred McLeod Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Zion Park War Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Dawn of Glory: 1.6 mi
- Saratoga Park Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Ridgewood War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Bushwick-Ridgewood War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.3 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 2.0 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.0 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 2.2 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 3.0 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 1.6 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 3.1 mi
- Carousel: 3.2 mi
- Emu: 3.2 mi
- Sea Lion Store & Cafe: 3.2 mi
- Robert Fulton: 1.8 mi
- Shai Asia Semple: 2.3 mi
- Mathematical Star: 2.5 mi
- Yusuf Hawkins: 2.5 mi
- Tiger: 2.8 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 2.6 mi
- Pebble Beach: 5.3 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 5.4 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 5.5 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 6.1 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 2.8 mi
- Rookery: 3.4 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 4.3 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 4.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 5.4 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.1 mi
- Breeze Hill: 3.3 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 3.4 mi
- Quaker Hill: 3.6 mi
- Lookout Hill: 3.6 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 5.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.4 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.4 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.5 mi
- Street Seats: 6.4 mi
- Palisades: 9.1 mi
- Palisades: 9.5 mi
- Palisades: 11.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Palisades: 15.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 3.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.5 mi
- The Loch: 9.5 mi
- The Falls: 15.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.9 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 14.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 14.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 17.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 12.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.3 mi
- Barber: 20.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 21.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Van Dyke Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 300° | 179 m | 20.5 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 291° | 175 m | 21.5 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 295° | 134 m | 24.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 248° | 125 m | 11.9 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 218° | 120 m | 23.9 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 56° | 106 m | 16.7 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 217° | 106 m | 23.4 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 283° | 92 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 | 19:50 | 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 | 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, 6 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly120 obs
- common mugwort88 obs
- Rock Pigeon75 obs
- European Starling73 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel70 obs
- princess tree69 obs
- Porcelain Berry68 obs
- House Sparrow62 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/1136885727
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 2 mi
- Queens · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 4 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 5 mi
- Downstate New York · 6 mi
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