Manhattanhenge, 2009.

- Manhattanhenge
Saturday, May 30, 2009
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Tudor City Viaduct
42nd St. and 1st Ave.

"For Manhattan, a place where evening matters more than morning, that special day comes on Saturday, May 30th this year, one of only two occasions when the Sun sets in exact alignment with the Manhattan grid, fully illuminating every single cross-street for the last fifteen minutes of daylight."

taken from Neil deGrasse Tyson's article at
www.haydenplanetarium.org/resources/starstruck/manhattanhenge


- I wasn't going to post this video, but I found it highly amusing yet slightly disconcerting that a mother left her baby unattended for a few seconds to take photographs of the sunset.

If you can't hear what we're saying... here's a partial transcript:
:03 "she ditched her baby for a sunset"
:08 "i don't know about the priorities going on here"
:23 "there's a cop here watching the baby"
:25 "the cops are all taking pictures"
:57 "why are they clapping?"
1:00 "because it's done... the sun just passed"
1:55 "i'm coming tomorrow with a bottle of wine"

Ah, to be a New Yorker living that fabulous city life.
The whole experience was totally uber-Manhattan.


- By the way, I initially assumed that the barricades were on the sidewalks to keep people from venturing onto the street to take pictures.
I was like... "wow, the city really cares about safety"...

Wrong.
President Obama and the First Lady were in town for a date.
They flew into the city for dinner and a show.
Class-act... that guy.

Man... you can't make this stuff up.
Only in New York.

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[wombchakra]

nice vid, put the date on title, esp. if you're making another in july

[borsche28]

thats cool cousin.

with all the people looking towards the sunset it looked like the scene from independence day. except there are no aliens in the video. ha.

see ya next month.