----------------------------Original message---------------------------- : 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? --- end of quoted material --- Because the avenue grid is mostly parallel to the rivers, with streets intersecting at 90 degrees, and Manhattan is not directly north-south. I'm guessing that on the winter solstice, the sunrise matches the street grid, too. Todd Minsk, ferro-bibliographer [log in to unmask]