Manhattanhenge

I thought I'd post this just for fun. Even though I live just outside of NYC, I hadn't heard that there was a name for this not-so-unusual phenomenon or that people were treating this like an actual occasion. But apparently, just about anything is a good excuse to gather and gawk:

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/05/manhattanhenge-an-annual-tradition/

 

Thousands of people have nothing better to do but stand in traffic and gawk at Sol?

 

The kid on the video explained that living in central Manhattan, it's so rare that you actually can see a sunset. It's not quite as much of an occasion as a primitive man seeing his first eclipse. But it seems to me like they are treating it as an equivalent event.