a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by lil
lil  ·  3464 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Manhattanhenge - Early Bird Gets the Unobstructed Sunset

Yes, you can see the sun rise or set from the top of a highrise, but I'm not sure there are so many spots at street level. It's only on a particular couple of days, standing on a particular corner, that you see the sun actually slip below the horizon as captured by smoorman1024.





user-inactivated  ·  3464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's kinda cool.

lil  ·  3464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The New Yorkers have the place landmarked, I think - or maybe it's just word of mouth.

There are other places, particularly in Mexico where earlier civilizations built pyramids or windows that do have special effects activated by the sun only during the equinoxes.