14 July 2014 Last updated at 00:14 BST
New Yorkers have witnessed "Manhattanhenge", a solar phenomenon during which all east-west streets on the city's grid system are spectacularly illuminated by the setting sun.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term in 1996, inspired by its likeness to Stonehenge, where the sun aligns with concentric circles of vertical stones on each of the solstices.
Manhattanhenge — sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice — is a circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the rising sun aligns with the east-west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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