Vito Locascio Field
Vito Locascio Field is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 7 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Rocket Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 50 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 7 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 10.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Rocket Park: 0.1 mi
- Centreville Playground: 0.3 mi
- Dumont Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Gemini Fields: 0.5 mi
- Harold Schneiderman Playground: 0.5 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 1.3 mi
- Rookery: 3.8 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 4.2 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 5.4 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 5.6 mi
- Euclid Pine Block Association: 1.3 mi
- Euclid Garden: 1.5 mi
- Crystal/Wells Community Garden: 1.7 mi
- Manley's Place: 1.8 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Garden: 2.1 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 1.4 mi
- King Manor Museum: 3.1 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 3.1 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 4.3 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 4.8 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 1.9 mi
- Betty Smith 1943: 1.9 mi
- Richmond Hill War Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Richmond Hill Branch: 2.2 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 2.2 mi
- The City Don't Sleep: 2.2 mi
- Dolphin: 2.3 mi
- Egret: 2.9 mi
- Mastodon: 2.9 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 2.2 mi
- JFK: 3.2 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 4.4 mi
- Welcome Center: 4.7 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 5.0 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.6 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 6.4 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 6.8 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 7.1 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 7.2 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 5.1 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.8 mi
- Willink Hill: 6.3 mi
- Breeze Hill: 6.4 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 6.5 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Area C: 5.8 mi
- Picnic Area D: 5.8 mi
- Picnic Area F: 5.9 mi
- Picnic Area G: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 11.5 mi
- Palisades: 11.6 mi
- Palisades: 12.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 12.3 mi
- Palisades: 16.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.5 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 15.4 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 16.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 16.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.4 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.7 mi
- The Loch: 10.5 mi
- The Falls: 15.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 14.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.3 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.3 mi
- Barber: 23.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Vito Locascio Field. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 295° | 179 m | 23.1 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 287° | 175 m | 24.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 251° | 125 m | 15.0 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 65° | 122 m | 24.1 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 50° | 106 m | 14.0 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 65° | 106 m | 23.8 mi |
| Nook Hill | W 281° | 92 m | 24.8 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 349° | 85 m | 16.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly73 obs
- House Sparrow60 obs
- Rock Pigeon57 obs
- common mugwort53 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel49 obs
- European Starling35 obs
- Mourning Dove34 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab33 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/1263305548
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 2 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 5 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 6 mi
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