New Yorkers and visitors were treated to a stunning sunset known as Manhattanhenge on Wednesday, stopping many people in their tracks to get a glimpse of the spectacle.
The phenomenon happens a few times a year and occurs when the sun aligns with the city’s street grid allowing for it to beam between the skyscrapers and occurs for two days. On Tuesday, the weather didn’t cooperate as clouds rolled in just in time for sunset.
The term “Manhattanhenge” was coined by famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson — who is himself from New York — as a nod to Britain’s Stonehenge, where, on the summer solstice, the sun aligns with a few of the stones.
Manhattanhenge will occur again on July 12 and 13.
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–with a file from Nicole Mortillaro
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