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Winfield Plaza

Winfield Plaza from directly overhead

Winfield Plaza is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 21 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is New Roots Community Garden Queens, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.7 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
21 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.74299, -73.89591
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Artworks
Attractions
  • The Geographic Center of NYC: 0.6 mi
  • Rocket Park: 2.3 mi
  • Domestic Animals: 2.4 mi
  • Education Center: 2.4 mi
  • Domestic Animals: 2.4 mi
Historic sites
  • 9/11 woodside firefighters memorial: 0.7 mi
  • Doughboy, WWI vets: 0.7 mi
  • Elmhurst Park Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 1.0 mi
  • Site of the Sunnyside Garden Arena: 1.3 mi
  • Gorman Playground Plaque: 1.4 mi
Peaks
  • Maspeth Plateau: 0.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Vista Rock: 4.6 mi
  • Summit Rock: 4.8 mi
  • Janes Hill: 4.8 mi
Museums
Beaches
  • Hallet’s Cove: 2.8 mi
  • Pebble Beach: 5.6 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 6.0 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 6.3 mi
  • Maxwell Place Beach: 6.7 mi
Nature reserves
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 17
  • Coogan's Bluff: 6.6 mi
  • Palisades: 6.7 mi
  • Palisades: 6.8 mi
  • Palisades: 7.7 mi
  • Palisades: 10.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • The Loch: 4.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 6.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 6.9 mi
  • The Falls: 10.5 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Rest areas: 4
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 20.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.1 miles of Winfield Plaza. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 315°268 m22.3 mi
Beech MountainNW 314°260 m23.4 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 314°230 m22.1 mi
Mount NeboN 356°208 m21.2 mi
Poacher PeakNW 313°185 m23.8 mi
Moon HillNW 313°180 m23.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 285°179 m18.8 mi
Mayapple HillW 276°175 m20.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546473797871604940
Precip in3.22.94.03.83.64.04.34.43.93.83.24.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • tree-of-heaven506 obs
  • Rock Pigeon242 obs
  • House Sparrow240 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel171 obs
  • Mourning Dove156 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly126 obs
  • European Starling121 obs
  • common mugwort100 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/374134775

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