Charybdis Playground

Charybdis Playground is a playground in Queens, New York. Charybdis Playground is situated near Astoria Play Center and Swimming Pool, as well as near Astoria Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad and Astoria Park.

East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad

Bridge

Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Hell Gate Bridge is a railroad bridge in New York City. The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands. East River Arch Bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad is situated 1,000 feet north of Charybdis Playground.

Astoria Park

Park

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Astoria Park is a 59.96-acre public park in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The park is situated on the eastern shore of the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Ditmars Boulevard to the north and Hoyt Avenue to the south.

Robert F Kennedy Memorial Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Robert F. Kennedy Bridge is a complex of bridges and elevated expressway viaducts in New York City. The bridges link the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx. Robert F Kennedy Memorial Bridge is situated 1,200 feet west of Charybdis Playground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Astoria and East Harlem.

Astoria

Neighborhood

Photo: Dinker022089, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River to the west and north and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, Sunnyside to the southeast, and Woodside and East Elmhurst to the east.

East Harlem

Neighborhood

Photo: Diensthuber, CC BY 3.0.

East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north.

Metro New York

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Metro New York or Greater New York, also called the Tri-State Area, is the massive metropolitan area around New York City in the states of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It is the biggest and wealthiest metro area in the United States.

Charybdis Playground

Type: Playground
Category: recreation area
Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.77981° or 40° 46′ 47″ north

Longitude

-73.92248° or 73° 55′ 21″ west

Open location code

87G8Q3HH+W2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 282309687

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=playground

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Astoria Play Center and Swimming Pool and Great Lawn and Turtle Pond.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Citi Bike - Shore Blvd & Astoria Park and General Slocum Disaster.

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Worth a closer look: John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport.

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