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  2. Manhattanhenge - Wikipedia

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    Country. United States. Manhattanhenge, also called the Manhattan Solstice, [ 1 ] is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims to have coined the term, by analogy with Stonehenge.

  3. Sunset Park, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west. [1][4][a] The neighborhood is named for a public park of the same name that covers 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) between ...

  4. Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    Heriberto Tellez. The Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn (MDC Brooklyn) is a United States federal administrative detention facility in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States ...

  5. Sunset Park (Brooklyn park) - Wikipedia

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    Sunset Park is a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) public park in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City, between 41st and 44th Streets and 5th and 7th Avenues. The modern-day park contains a playground, recreation center, and pool. The recreation center and pool comprise the Sunset Play Center, which was designated as both an exterior and ...

  6. Daylight saving time 2024: When to set your clocks back in NY

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    Daylight saving time ends that day at 2 a.m. which is the official hour to set all of our clocks once again to standard time. That's when local time will instantly become 1 a.m. and people "gain ...

  7. 36th Street station (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) - Wikipedia

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    The 36th Street station is an express station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It is served by the D, N, and R trains at all times. [4] During rush hours, a limited amount of W trains also serve this station. The 36th Street station was constructed as ...

  8. Daylight saving time in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Ohio Clock in the U.S. Capitol being turned forward for the country's first daylight saving time on March 31, 1918 by the Senate sergeant at arms Charles Higgins.. Most of the United States observes daylight saving time (DST), the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour when there is longer daylight during the day, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.

  9. Golden hour (photography) - Wikipedia

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    In photography, the golden hour is the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the sun is higher in the sky. The golden hour is also sometimes called the magic hour, especially by cinematographers and photographers. [1][2] During these times, the brightness of the sky ...