New York and Stonehenge - two sides of the same coin

Geoff Manaugh is one of my blogging heroes. bldgblog continually boggles my mind, as it will yours. His latest post is about how New York is set 29 degrees off the north-south axis. This means that there are only two days each year that on a cross-town street you can watch the sunset - July 13 and May 28. This makes Manhattan a solar clock, much like Stonehenge.

Of course, the days are not seasonally related, like solstice and equinox, and no holy rites are observed. And the alignment was not constructed intentionally - at least we don't think so.

But, if some Lovecraftian horror arises from the East River next week, I am going to feel a little more secure about my safety here on the West Coast.

Although I should probably check out how my city is situated... there is that whole focus of ley line energy at the Queen Victoria statue in front of the legislature to worry about.