Manhattanhenge

Annamaria on 14th Street

Sunset on Manhattanhenge


To calibrate the relationship of the earth to the sun, the English have this:




We New Yorkers have this:




When the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 laid out midtown Manhattan, they set the grid 29 degrees clockwise from true east-west.


Still twice a year the streets line up with the sunrise and twice a year with the sunset, which can be pretty spectacular if the weather cooperates.


New York's favorite astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson named the phenomen...