New Yorkers are flocking to city streets with their heads facing the sun to watch Monday’s partial solar eclipse.
From Manhattan’s Union Square to the Bronx Zoo to Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery, the borough’s biggest appleers have already begun flocking to the city’s green spaces to secure the best seats possible ahead of the afternoon event. There is.
“This is a beautiful place,” Bill Gabriel, 64, of Brooklyn, told the Post as he waited in line to enter Greenwood at noon.
“I have family, I have friends, I know a lot of people here underground. The next solar eclipse will be in Greenwood, but I won’t be able to see it,” he joked, then today He mentioned that a solar eclipse the size of which will pass over the United States will be in 2044.
Volunteer Alice Teple, 45, said more than 7,000 people are expected to gather in Greenwood alone to watch the eclipse, and because of its unique history as both a cemetery and a Revolutionary War battle, people may be drawn to the area, he added. site.
“I think this is a truly unique place on Earth,” Tepple said.
The solar eclipse is expected to begin in the city around 2:50 p.m., with 90% of the sun obscured by the moon by around 3:25 p.m. The show will be over for New Yorkers around 4 p.m.
