Manhattanhenge

Guest: Jackie Faherty, PhD, Senior Scientist and Senior Education Manager, Department of Astrophysics and the Department of Education, American Museum of Natural History in New York City When you imagine the best places to watch a sunset, you might think about a beach or a mountaintop. But right now one of the most striking places to see the sun dip below the horizon is New York City. This is the season of “Manhattanhenge” when, for a brief window, the sunset aligns perfectly with the East-West street grid of Manhattan. In those moments, traffic stops, people fill the streets and Instagram is flooded with really cool pics of #manhattanhenge.