Virginia Playground
Virginia Playground is a park in Bronx, New York. Virginia Playground is situated nearby to the neighborhood Parkchester, as well as near Unionport.Places of Interest
Highlights include Parkchester station and Parkchester Library.
Parkchester station
Metro station
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Not to be confused with Parkchester/Van Nest station, a nearby, proposed Metro-North Railroad station as part of Penn Station Access The Parkchester station is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway.
Metropolitan Oval
Park
Photo: Anthony42710, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Metropolitan Oval, also known as Met Oval, is a soccer complex located in Maspeth, Queens in New York City. Village Voice named the complex, which takes up 4.2 acres, the "Best full soccer field in the middle of a residential neighborhood" in 2004, for its "pristine" playing surface and the view of the Manhattan skyline.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkchester and West Farms.
Parkchester
Neighborhood
Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the east Bronx, New York City.
West Farms
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
West Farms is a residential neighborhood in The Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries are Bronx Park to the north, the Bronx River to the east, the Cross Bronx Expressway to the south, and Southern Boulevard to the west.
Westchester Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Westchester Square is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the eastern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: East Tremont Avenue and Silver Street, Blondell Avenue and Westchester Creek to the east, Waterbury Avenue to the south and Castle Hill Avenue to the west.
Virginia Playground
- Type: Park
- Description: park in the United States of America
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.83423° or 40° 50′ 3″ northLongitude
-73.86228° or 73° 51′ 44″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Height
15 feet (4.7 metres)Open location code
87G8R4MQ+M3OpenStreetMap ID
way 281875220OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
7156156Wikidata ID
Q49575688
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Satellite Map
Discover Virginia Playground from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
“Virginia Playground” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Virginia Playground”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Unionport and Van Nest.
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Highlights include Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church and Virginia Park.
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