If there’s only one thing that you do this summer, it’s this:
Enjoy summer while it’s here. It’s that simple, like the sun setting over the Narrows.
The Sky Is Falling
We know where the old story about the sky falling comes from.
Sights like this beautiful sunset.
Epic NYC Sunset
We love the epic nature of a sunset, and the fact that our sunsets have the sun pass over the fumes of the gas refineries in New Jersey — they make for sunsets on steroids, like this one.
While it looks powerful by itself, if you take a closer look, you can see a commercial jet in the cloudline that has just taken off from Newark Airport, having passed in front of the sun.
That jet trail almost looks to be a solar flare — totally awesome.
Sunset: NYC
We’ve been quite fortunate in life when it comes to sunsets in that we’ve somehow managed to see roughly 500 of them so far. Living in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, we are pretty much at the western most point of Long Island, not too far from a body of water, the Narrows, and as such, get a killer (unobstructed) view of the sun setting over Staten Island.
We’ve also had a job that gave us an office on Houston Street in Manhattan that overlooked the Hudson River, and that allowed for spectacular, Bob Ross type of sunsets to unfold before our eyes. Then, we were fortunate enough to work some 500 feet up in the sky of Long Island City, and had our desk facing west, which gave us a sometimes blinding view of the sun setting over Midtown Manhattan.
While 500 sunsets sounds like a crazy amount, it’s nowhere close to the 11,000 or so that we’ve missed. So, if you ever have some free moments in the evening, get on out, or to a window, and watch. It’s both humbling and refreshing. Plus, each one is different.
Brooklyn’s Post Sunset Glow
Bright lights, big city Round earth, bright sun — that’s the case with the post sunset glow that peeks up over Staten Island and into Brooklyn.
We like to imagine that someone is in one of those backlit buildings and screaming “I LOST MY HAND, I LOST MY BRIDE!” or at the very least, ”STELLAAAAAA!”