Wednesday · September · 30 · 2026
DST“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 06:52 and sets at 18:41 in New York City today, giving 11h 49m of daylight. Solar noon is at 12:47.
06:52
Sunrise
12:47
Noon
18:41
Sunset
Midnight
00:47
Sunrise
06:52
Solar noon
12:47
Sunset
18:41
Solar midnight
00:47
Daylight
11h 49m
Daylight runs about 15h 5m around the June solstice and 9h 15m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
New York City observes daylight saving time. In 2026, clocks move forward to UTC−4 on March 8 and move back to UTC−5 on November 1. New York City is currently on daylight saving time.
Mar 8
Forward · UTC−4
Nov 1
Back · UTC−5
Sep 30
Today
The shaded band marks the daylight saving period.
Public holidays
United States has 1 public holiday in September 2026.
Architecture
New York builds vertically under rules it wrote for itself. Zoning setbacks, lot lines and whatever runs beneath the site tend to end up visible in the form.
Completed 2025
Foster + Partners
JPMorgan's headquarters on Park Avenue. Foster + Partners lifted the whole tower onto splayed steel legs that fan out at the base, carrying the loads around the rail tunnels running beneath the site. The structure stays exposed where it meets the ground, so the shaft appears to stand clear of it. The constraint below the site becomes the form above it.
Completed 2015
Renzo Piano
The Whitney's building at the south end of the High Line. Renzo Piano stacked the galleries and pushed the circulation outside as steel stairs and terraces facing the river. The upper floors step back, so the mass breaks down as it rises above the meatpacking blocks. The industrial vocabulary is borrowed from the neighbourhood rather than imposed on it.
Completed 2006
Renzo Piano
An addition tying together the Morgan's three historic buildings on Madison Avenue. Renzo Piano put a glass court between them and pushed most of the new volume underground, so nothing new competes for height. The old exterior walls become interior walls of the court, lit from above. It is an argument that building next to something old is a question of restraint rather than contrast.
Completed 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright
A museum on Fifth Avenue facing Central Park. Frank Lloyd Wright made the gallery one ramp spiralling up around an open well, so the building holds a single continuous room instead of a sequence of halls. Paintings hang on a wall that curves and leans back, which the museum resisted at the time. It was his last major building, and the one where he refused to let a museum be a set of rooms.
Completed 1958
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Philip Johnson
An office tower on Park Avenue, set back behind a granite plaza. Mies van der Rohe ran bronze mullions the full height to give the glass a vertical reading, and used them as expression rather than structure. Philip Johnson designed the interiors, including the restaurant. The plaza it gave up was cited as the model when New York rewrote its zoning in 1961, which is why so many towers since stand behind an empty square.