http://www.gothamist.com/2006/05/28/reminder_manhat.php All comments for Reminder: Manhattanhenge Riseth at Sunset! en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:11:44 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/05/28/reminder_manhat.php#comment-132340 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/05/28/reminder_manhat.php#comment-132340 Comments Mon, 29 May 2006 00:31:14 -0500 <p>this shit was wack. The sunset at like 8:3o something and it looked just like yesterday. Nothing special. The way the Times and Gothamist hyped it up got my dick hard but I was left unsatisfied.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2006/05/28/reminder_manhat.php#comment-132320 http://www.gothamist.com/2006/05/28/reminder_manhat.php#comment-132320 Comments Sun, 28 May 2006 23:09:37 -0500 <p>What fascinates me about this story is the way it illustrates how clearly the Times drives local and national news coverage. The pheonomenon in question has clearly been with us since 1811, when the grid plan was adopted. Since the 1920's -- a peak period for skysraper construction -- if not before, its effects have been clearly visible. Neil deGrasse Tyson published his paper about it nearly four years ago. But a query in the "City" section's FYI column, published two weeks ago, suddenly propelled it to the top of the agenda. Newsweek and New York magazine mentioned it. All the braodcast TV stations have mentioned it in newscasts, as have CNN and NY1. ABC and NPR (among other media) ran national features. To be sure, this is a slow news week. But it's surely not a coincidence that so many editors discovered it at the same time after 195 years. Even more telling: the "City" section is distributed only in the five boroughs.</p>