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2 messages.-------------------------------Johnnie
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: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 11:49:01 -0700 (PDT)
: Roger Wheate <[log in to unmask]>
: Re: Solstice
I assume then, that these streets are really southeast-northwest. (Out
here in the west, where streets are truly east-west, this phenomenon
occurs on the equinoxes, not the solstices.) Can you enlighten us as to
whether this design in Manhattan was deliberate and the history behind it?
Roger Wheate
Part-time druidic studies
UNBC
On Thu, 22 Jun 1995, Johnnie D. Sutherland wrote:
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> It's cloudy today in New York, but I just wanted to make sure that all you
> followers of the sun on the horizon (Jim Minton et al.) know that the
> "east-west" streets in Manhattan (in the great City of New York) are oriented
> so that on this day (June 21), the sun will shine directly (or almost) down
> the streets as it is about to set. Jim, have you ever been in New York for
> the summer solstice? Anybody else?
>
> Nancy Kandoian
> NYPL Map Division
> [log in to unmask]
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: 22 Jun 1995 16:32:16 EST
: "EDWARD J REDMOND" <[log in to unmask]>
: " A GOTHAM SOLSTICE"
Are you suggesting that the sun rises and falls on the NYPL
rather than the British Empire?
Ed Redmond
G&M,LC
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