{"id":249278,"date":"2026-05-31T06:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249278\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T06:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T06:11:06","slug":"blue-moon-illuminates-skyline-as-it-rises-over-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249278\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Blue Moon&#8217; Illuminates Skyline as It Rises Over NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orange hues illuminated New York City on Saturday evening, May 30, as a \u201c<a data-ylk=\"slk:rare Blue Moon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/the-blue-moon-rises-tonight-where-and-when-to-see-the-second-full-moon-of-may\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">rare Blue Moon<\/a>\u201d rose over the skyline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mesmerizing timelapse footage captured by Mike Carroll shows the moon rising behind the Empire State Building and nearby skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI planned this Blue Moon alignment with the iconic Empire State Building and the NYC skyline from over 7 miles away! My vantage point was from Bergen County, New Jersey,\u201d Carroll told Storyful. \u201cIt was an amazing sight to see and I even witnessed a plane flying through the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a data-ylk=\"slk:Space.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/stargazing\/the-blue-moon-rises-tonight-where-and-when-to-see-the-second-full-moon-of-may\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Space.com<\/a>, the Blue Moon was expected to reach peak illumination at 4:45 am on May 31, and could first be observed as it rose above the horizon around sunset on May 30. Credit: Mike Carroll via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange hues illuminated New York City on Saturday evening, May 30, as a \u201crare Blue Moon\u201d rose over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17773,11062,97397,97399,1066,9,24,56,63,65,64,97398],"class_list":["post-249278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bergen-county","tag-blue-moon","tag-mike-carroll","tag-nearby-skyscrapers","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-the-blue-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}