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Veterans Square

Veterans Square from directly overhead

Veterans Square is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 7 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Rosedale Vietnam Monument, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
7 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.66546, -73.73519
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Rosedale Vietnam Monument: 0.1 mi
  • HBFD Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • Hewlett Veterans Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 2.6 mi
Parks
Nature reserves
Gardens
Artworks
  • A Tribe Called Quest Mural: 2.2 mi
  • Frog: 2.7 mi
  • Frog: 2.7 mi
  • Frog: 2.7 mi
  • Frog: 2.7 mi
Museums
Attractions
Beaches
Peaks: 47
  • Queens High Point: 6.4 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 9.7 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 10.5 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 10.8 mi
  • Willink Hill: 12.0 mi
Picnic sites: 31
  • Picnic Area D: 1.3 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 1.3 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 1.4 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 1.5 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 1.5 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Coogan's Bluff: 15.7 mi
  • Palisades: 16.6 mi
  • Palisades: 16.7 mi
  • Palisades: 17.0 mi
  • Palisades: 19.0 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Waterfalls: 5
  • Binnen Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 12.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 12.4 mi
  • The Loch: 14.8 mi
  • The Falls: 16.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Veterans Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Todt HillWSW 257°125 m20.4 mi
Jayne's HillENE 57°122 m19.2 mi
Harbor HillNNE 28°106 m10.5 mi
West HillsENE 57°106 m19.0 mi
Dix HillsENE 62°92 m22.6 mi
Signal HillENE 61°90 m21.8 mi
Mannetto HillsENE 58°85 m17.2 mi
Bronx High PointNNW 331°85 m18.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333541516170767568574738
Precip in3.22.83.93.63.73.93.94.13.63.73.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel191 obs
  • common milkweed153 obs
  • Mallard149 obs
  • American Robin141 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird119 obs
  • Rock Pigeon108 obs
  • Canada Goose108 obs
  • European Starling93 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357640798

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