Spiros Wrote:
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> That's what I said.
>
> > First of all the phenomena cannot be
> witnessed on
> > Alexander's birthday - every July 21 date. It
> only
> > works the day(date and year) he was born July
> 21
> > 356 BC.
>
> New York did not exist when Alexander was born,
> and there would be no use in encoding his birth
> with a specific day of the year(birthday), because
> the alignment would drift away from any
> pre-defined city grid orientation in a number of
> years. That's why the day of his birth was chosen,
> this does not change. The astronomic data of this
> day are facts that can be checked.

But Manhattanhenge does not encode his birth ,the pheneomenon does not work on his birth date . The common denominator is the only the latitude ,which means that the sunrise/set will be the same given that the horizons are also similar .If they wanted to encode his birthday then they would need a different bearing for the street .The commissioners plan makes no mention of Alexander's birthday , the only coincidence is the similar latitude .