Veteran's Square
Veteran's Square is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 14 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is American Triangle, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 5.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- American Triangle: 0.0 mi
- Park of the Americas: 0.1 mi
- Corona Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Josephine Caminiti Playground: 0.3 mi
- Corona Golf Playground: 0.5 mi
- Corona Taxpayers Association: 0.5 mi
- Sparrow's Nest Community Gardens: 0.6 mi
- 97th Street Block Association Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Malcolm X Day Care Center: 0.8 mi
- Arthur Ashe Sculpture Garden: 0.9 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 0.5 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 0.6 mi
- Queens Museum: 0.9 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 2.2 mi
- John Bowne House: 2.3 mi
- Rocket Park: 0.6 mi
- Owl: 0.7 mi
- Canadian Lynx: 0.7 mi
- Bald Eagle: 0.7 mi
- Domestic Animals: 0.7 mi
- Unisphere: 0.9 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Home Plate 1964-2008: 1.0 mi
- Unisphere: 1.0 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium First Base 1964-2008: 1.0 mi
- Site of Shea Stadium Pitcher's Plate 1964-2008: 1.0 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.4 mi
- Janes Hill: 5.1 mi
- Mount Morris: 5.7 mi
- Vista Rock: 6.0 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.1 mi
- Parsons Beach: 6.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 7.3 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 7.8 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 7.9 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 5.3 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.0 mi
- Virginia Point: 6.6 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.6 mi
- Street Seats: 4.5 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 5.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.9 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.1 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.1 mi
- Palisades: 7.9 mi
- Palisades: 8.4 mi
- Palisades: 9.4 mi
- Palisades: 10.7 mi
- The Loch: 6.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.2 mi
- The Falls: 9.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 21.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 21.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.2 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.7 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 22.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.9 miles of Veteran's Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 311° | 268 m | 23.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 311° | 230 m | 23.1 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 351° | 208 m | 21.1 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 283° | 179 m | 20.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 275° | 175 m | 22.3 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 14° | 156 m | 22.8 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 2° | 147 m | 23.6 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | WNW 303° | 144 m | 23.5 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 | 18:54 |
| 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, 2 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven513 obs
- Rock Pigeon290 obs
- Mallard206 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel202 obs
- House Sparrow198 obs
- American Robin161 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly154 obs
- marsh elder152 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/324979163
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 1 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 2 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Queens/Long Island City and Astoria · 4 mi
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