Manhattanhenge Is Back Again: When, Where and How to Watch

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Friday, July 11 (8:20 ET) and Saturday, July 12 (8:22 ET) sunsets.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/manhattanhenge-2025-time-how-to-watch.html

There's a link for listening to the full article under the headline.

Manhattanhenge Is Back Again: When, Where and How to Watch
It’s your last chance this year to catch New York City’s best sunset, if the weather cooperates.

By Katrina Miller
July 10, 2025


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Among the most popular places to watch this special sunset is the Tudor City overpass, a pedestrian walkway above 42nd Street. The vantage point offers a good view of the Chrysler Building.

Another favored location for photographers is the Park Avenue Viaduct a few avenues west, near Grand Central Station. But pedestrians aren’t allowed up there, and police will likely show up to clear any gathering crowds.

But any street running east to west in Manhattan with good visibility of New Jersey is fair game. For the best views (and photos), Dr. Faherty recommends finding a wide road framed by notable city structures.

On 34th Street, you’ll see the Empire State Building; elsewhere on 42nd Street, you might be able to position Times Square in your frame. Wide roads like 14th Street, 23rd Street and 57th Street are also popular. Uptown on 145th Street and Hunters Point in Queens offer unconventional views.

Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term in 2002:
https://neildegrassetyson.com/photos/2002-10-city-of-stars/manhattanhenge/

And see this cartoon from.1997:
https://neildegrassetyson.com/photos/1997-04-an-astrophysicists-manhattan/


Although I lived in NYC twice, decades ago - on East 57th Street and in Murray Hill a few blocks south of Grand Central (which should've been good places for watching these sunsets, according to this article), and on the Upper East Side and the West Side - I don't recall ever noticing those special times when the sunsets line up (main recollections of Manhattan streets: damn, they're crowded, and it's like being stuck at the bottom of a concrete canyon, but the stores and restaurants and clubs and museums are amazing).

I think it would be cool for any DUers now in Manhattan to catch these sunsets, though...

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