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Manhattan's East-West streets are not laid out due East/West. They're actually 29 degrees clockwise of the true cardinal directions! So these dates are particu

• th0ma5 10y ago
  I take it this was due to the magnetic North at the time perhaps?
  • Analemma_ 10y ago
    It's because the roads are aligned with the axes of the island itself, and the island doesn't face north-south
• hammock 10y ago
  That is a fun fact, and also explains why manhattanhenge only happens at sunset and not also sunrise. A true east-west sunrise/sunset occurs at the equinoxes (Spring and Fall)
  • robotmlg 10y ago
    It does happen at sunrise, just on different dates, around the Winter solstice
  • timdierks 10y ago
    It does happen at sunrise roughly 18 days before and after the winter solstice. (Dec 3 and Jan 10)