Today is Manhattanhenge, the twice-per-year event when Manhattan’s tilted-at-29-degrees-east-of-true-north grid happens to line up with sunset, so that the sun goes down in line with the facade walls on the side streets. It’s meaningless but pretty. The picture above is 42nd Street, which is one of the wide, two-way crosstown streets; the effect is even more dramatic when viewed down one of the more common narrow side streets.
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