Twice a year there is a sunset that perfectly aligns with New York City’s grid street system, called Manhattanhenge.
The term “Manhattanhenge” was coined back in 1997 by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in an article in the magazine Natural History. He had visited the Stonehenge structure in England as a teenager and later determined that the way the sun hits the structure during the summer solstice could be replicated in Manhattan a few weeks prior to the solstice.
