West 87th Street Garden
West 87th Street Garden is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 32 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Playground Eighty Nine LXXXIX, a park 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 4.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 32 m
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 5.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 23.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Playground Eighty Nine LXXXIX: 0.1 mi
- St. Gregory's Playground: 0.2 mi
- Sol Bloom Playground: 0.2 mi
- Tarr-Coyne Wild West Playground: 0.3 mi
- Central Park: 0.4 mi
- West Side Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers Garden: 0.2 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 0.5 mi
- Lotus Garden: 0.6 mi
- La Perla Garden: 0.9 mi
- Seneca Village: 0.2 mi
- Dr. Gao Yaojie Memorial Bench: 0.2 mi
- Nobel Monument: 0.4 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Gate of All Saints: 0.5 mi
- Summit Rock: 0.3 mi
- Vista Rock: 0.5 mi
- Great Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mount Morris: 1.9 mi
- Kings Bluff: 3.0 mi
- Romeo and Juliet: 0.5 mi
- The Tempest: 0.5 mi
- Hammer Boy: 0.5 mi
- Alexander Hamilton: 0.5 mi
- Alexander von Humboldt: 0.5 mi
- Bow Bridge: 0.8 mi
- Glen Span Arch: 0.8 mi
- Bethesda Fountain: 0.9 mi
- Archibald’s Townhouse: 1.0 mi
- Huddlestone Arch: 1.0 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 1.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.0 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 4.0 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 5.2 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 5.7 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.2 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 3.8 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 3.9 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.7 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 1.9 mi
- Street Seats: 2.8 mi
- The Backyard: 5.7 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.6 mi
- Palisades: 1.8 mi
- Palisades: 2.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.6 mi
- Palisades: 4.9 mi
- Palisades: 7.4 mi
- The Loch: 0.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.7 mi
- The Falls: 9.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.7 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 22.5 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 22.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 11.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.0 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.1 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 23.0 mi
- Barber: 23.3 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.0 miles of West 87th Street Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 317° | 268 m | 17.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 316° | 260 m | 18.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 316° | 230 m | 17.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 7° | 208 m | 18.2 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 315° | 185 m | 18.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 315° | 180 m | 18.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 277° | 179 m | 14.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 267° | 175 m | 16.6 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, under a mile away.
- white snakeroot10,710 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel4,800 obs
- Rock Pigeon4,526 obs
- American Robin4,392 obs
- common milkweed3,809 obs
- House Sparrow3,759 obs
- tree-of-heaven2,993 obs
- Pond Slider2,861 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/895611180
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