New Yorkers gather to watch 'Manhattanhenge'
The sun sets in alignment with Manhattan's streets running east-west, also known as 'Manhattanhenge,' in New York City on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. AFP PHOTO NEW YORK CITY: Snapping pictures with mobile phones, hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists gathered in the streets to watch the sun set in perfect alignment between rows of the skyscrapers for which the megacity is famous.Right on schedule at 8:12 p.m.
'It's a beautiful event. And it's some totally New York moment to do,' said Jeanette Wolfson, a 47-year-old science teacher from Long Island who came into the city to take pictures for her students.She said she would remind them that 'it's not the sun actually setting. It is the Earth rotating out of the light into the darkness.
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