West Playground
West Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Edible Schoolyard NYC, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 50 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 17.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 18.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 0.2 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Dana Borell Garden: 1.5 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 1.6 mi
- Victory Garden: 0.4 mi
- Grady Playground: 0.4 mi
- Cutinella Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Gravesend Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Banner Avenue Triangle: 0.5 mi
- To All Veterans, Living or Dead: 0.8 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 0.9 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 0.9 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 0.8 mi
- Tagging Robot: 0.9 mi
- Giant Squid: 0.9 mi
- K. 159: 0.9 mi
- First Symphony of the Sea: 1.0 mi
- Sharks: 0.9 mi
- Conservation Hall: 1.0 mi
- Sea Cliffs: 1.0 mi
- The Tickler: 1.0 mi
- Glover's Reef: 1.0 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 1.1 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 1.6 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 2.0 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 2.4 mi
- Fort Tilden Beach: 4.5 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 3.4 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 3.6 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 3.8 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 4.3 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 4.6 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 3.4 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.5 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 4.0 mi
- Swinburne Island: 4.5 mi
- Rookery: 5.5 mi
- Lookout Hill: 4.9 mi
- Battle Hill: 4.9 mi
- Breeze Hill: 5.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 5.1 mi
- Willink Hill: 5.1 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.6 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.8 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 7.9 mi
- Freedom Field: 8.9 mi
- Palisades: 11.4 mi
- Palisades: 12.9 mi
- Palisades: 15.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 17.0 mi
- Hawk Hill: 20.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 8.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 8.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.1 mi
- North Tower: 13.2 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 13.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.3 mi
- The Loch: 14.3 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 20.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 15.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 15.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 16.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.6 mi
- Barber: 15.6 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.8 mi
- Tulip Springs: 20.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of West Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 317° | 179 m | 21.1 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 308° | 175 m | 21.0 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 310° | 134 m | 24.2 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 277° | 125 m | 7.7 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 220° | 120 m | 17.6 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 219° | 106 m | 17.0 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 50° | 106 m | 22.7 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 300° | 92 m | 20.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
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, under a mile away.
- Laughing Gull345 obs
- Ring-billed Gull326 obs
- American Herring Gull292 obs
- Rock Pigeon283 obs
- European Starling180 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull158 obs
- Brant132 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab130 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/495977612
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 7 mi
- Bayonne · 9 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 9 mi
- Downstate New York · 9 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 9 mi
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