Pics: New Yorkers Chase The Sunset As 'Manhattanhenge' Lights Up City
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The biannual spectacle takes place in New York wherein the Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid.
A rare natural phenomenon brought the city that never stops to a standstill on Tuesday evening as thousands tried to capture the perfect 'Manhattanhenge' picture. The biannual spectacle takes place in New York wherein the Sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid. Tonight's half-sun Manhattanhenge on 42nd Street pic.twitter.com/VYJ7lzX7p1
Manhattanhenge occurs twice in May and twice in July, and for these two days, as the Sun sets on the grid, half the disk sits above and half below the horizon, according to the American Museum of Natural History.
The "henge" phenomena is not restricted to New York and similar occurrences have been reported in other cities with large amounts of skyscrapers and long straight streets - such as Chicago, Montreal and Toronto.
