Park · New York
Yak Playground
Yak Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Playground 286, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 16 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
Coordinates40.59235, -73.93632
- 16.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 18.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Playground 286: 0.1 mi
- Sheepshead Playground: 0.3 mi
- Herman Dolgon Playground: 0.4 mi
- Bill Brown Playground: 0.5 mi
- Jerzee Triangle: 0.6 mi
Artworks
- Fisherman: 0.5 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 1.0 mi
- Giant Squid: 2.1 mi
- Horse: 2.3 mi
- First Symphony of the Sea: 2.4 mi
Historic sites
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Col. John B. O'Dowd Memorial Plaque: 0.9 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 2.2 mi
Beaches
- Gerritsen Beach: 0.8 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 1.1 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 1.2 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 2.7 mi
- Fort Tilden Beach: 3.2 mi
Gardens
- KCC Urban Farm: 0.9 mi
- Dana Borell Garden: 1.1 mi
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 1.8 mi
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 1.9 mi
- The Floyd Bennett Gardens: 2.3 mi
Attractions
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 1.5 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 1.5 mi
- Sharks: 2.4 mi
- Sea Cliffs: 2.4 mi
- Conservation Hall: 2.4 mi
Nature reserves
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 1.7 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 2.2 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 2.8 mi
- Rookery: 3.7 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.1 mi
Museums
- Ryan Visitor Center: 2.1 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 2.8 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 3.8 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 4.1 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 5.2 mi
Peaks: 47
- Breeze Hill: 4.9 mi
- Lookout Hill: 4.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 5.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 5.1 mi
- Battle Hill: 5.3 mi
Picnic sites: 32
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.1 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 7.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.0 mi
- Freedom Field: 9.6 mi
Cliffs: 13
- Palisades: 11.8 mi
- Palisades: 13.0 mi
- Palisades: 15.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 16.6 mi
- Palisades: 20.7 mi
Lighthouses: 9
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 9.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 9.7 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.5 mi
- North Tower: 13.8 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 13.8 mi
Waterfalls: 7
- Binnen Falls: 5.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.3 mi
- The Loch: 14.0 mi
- The Falls: 21.1 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 16.7 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 17.3 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 17.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 17.4 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.4 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Yak Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 313° | 179 m | 22.1 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 304° | 175 m | 22.3 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 273° | 125 m | 9.4 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 224° | 120 m | 19.1 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 222° | 106 m | 18.5 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 47° | 106 m | 21.1 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 297° | 92 m | 21.9 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 5° | 85 m | 21.2 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 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 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 | 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, 2 mi away.
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab940 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron273 obs
- red deadnettle269 obs
- common mugwort268 obs
- Laughing Gull261 obs
- Osprey252 obs
- American Herring Gull248 obs
- Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab242 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/672683268
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