Apparently one of these lights is the Sun.
Photo by Rick Stachura. July 16, 2026.
Looking west from 9th Avenue and West 49th Street.
In mid-July, when the smoky debris from wildfires blazing some thousand miles away in western Ontario reached the City, the five boroughs were drenched in humidity and smog. For days the sky was tawny, and anything that happened to be caught in it bore this blood orange glow.