The phenomenon (but not the term "Manhattanhenge") was described by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and a native New Yorker in 1997 in the magazine Natural History.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and a native New Yorker, described the phenomenon (but not the term "Manhattanhenge") in 1997 in the magazine Natural History.