Thursday, May 29, 2008

Manhattanhenge is Tomorrow


Once a year, the Manhattan grid comes into astronomical alignment with the sun, and city dwellers are treated to a sunset that lines up with cross-town streets.

411: May 30, sunset at 8:16pm; best viewing is at 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd and 57th, as far East as possible

3 comments:

the lyrical jesse james said...

Where do we pre game for this. Im so sincerious. I want to hit the bottle and watch this. It not just an excuse to drink, this sounds awesome. So seriously where we boozing...I mean watching the sun.

One more question though...Does this mean that when the son rises it will rise in the same manner, perfectly aligned with the streets. Sounds like something worth waking up early for or....

. said...

Shizzerhenge with gamehenge playing loudly in the backround during manhattanhenge will most certainly lead to blackouthenge with the inevitable newoldpaulhenge stealing the show and creating humorhenge and goodfriendhenge. Appearing live this weekend in the district is jealoushenge.

Mom said...

I'm so sorry I missed this...I totally would have gotten drunk for the sun. I once got blacked out for Leap Year, but I heard it doesn't count, or maybe it counts 4x more.
Anything "henge" is f'n rad; and I'll drink to that!