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Prepare Your Animal Sacrifices: 'Manhattanhenge' Blazes in NYC Tonight
The setting sun is about to click exactly into the city's grid, creating a godlike spectacle of flame and shadow tonight and tomorrow.
Brooklynites may want to guard their urban chickens this evening, as there could be pagans afoot looking for fat animals to ritually slaughter.
That's because New York is on the precipice of the 2012 "Manhattan Solstice," aka Manhattanhenge, a twice-yearly event in which the evening sun sears the eyes and throttles the brains of us puny mortals. The weather forecast includes the possibility of impending thunderstorms, but if the skies do grow foul tonight the "solstice" will throw down once more tomorrow (when there's another chance of storms... go figure) before vanishing to prepare for its next appearance, on July 11.