Over at Brain Pickings , Maria Popova has assembleda great little preview of Mapping Manhattan , a newly published aggregation of 75 hand - cast maps , subject by strangers and famous New Yorkers likewise to cartographic conservator Becky Cooper . One of our favorites of the bunch is this study from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson , who has used his canvass to reproduce the famed“Manhattan Solstice . ”
You may know it as Manhattanhenge – NYC ’s own , personal celestial alignment , during which the setting Sunday nest itself betwixt the borough ’s east / west streets . Those who will be in NYC this yr can see it for themselves on : May 28th and July 13th ( see here for details on time / location ) .
say more about Cooper ’s carefully curated assembling of Manhattan mapson Brain Pickings .
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