My officemate’s boyfriend works at the American Natural History Museum. Earlier this week, she forwarded me an email, sent to the museum staff by the Director of the Hayden Planetarium, about this special Manhattan sunset. The “Manhattanhenge” is when the sun is in perfect alignment with the city grid, fully illuminating every single cross-street for the last fifteen minutes of daylight.

We were hanging out by 21st Street around the time of the sunset, so we stepped out at 8:10 for the sunset. According to the Director of ANHM, the best location to view this is on one of the wider cross streets like 14th, 23rd, 34th and 42nd. It was a pretty awesome view… If you missed it yesterday, you should try to see it today or in July…

Today: May 30 — 8:16 p.m. EDT

JULY
Half Sun on grid: Saturday, July 12 — 8:25 p.m. EDT
Full Sun on grid: Friday, July 11 — 8:24 p.m. EDT

I love this guy…