A Sidewalk Clock Standing Proudly in Queens Gets a Restoration
Local leaders raised the funds, but mysteriously, there was no record of what the battered timepiece looked like when it was installed more than 100 years ago.
In search of lost time: the provenance of the rare ornate clock at Jamaica Avenue and Union Hall Street was a longstanding mystery until researchers recently discovered a similar model in a 1908 catalog of a long-vanished Brooklyn manufacturer.Credit.Photographs by Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times
April 30, 2021
On a busy strip of Jamaica Avenue in Queens, where vendors hawk cellphone cases outside shops selling off-price wigs, tattoo services and fungal-nail care, stands one of downtown Jamaica’s most dignified residents. This street-corner denizen is an ornate cast-iron sidewalk clock, more than a century old, attired with archaic formality like a proud codger who still wears his threadbare suit every day, even as the world passes him by.
COVID affecting sleep habits ahead of Daylight Saving Time
We ve made it around the calendar so it s time again to reset your clocks
March 13, 2021 7:50 PM Marsalis McGhee
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Elise Amendola
Electric Time technician Dan LaMoore carries a clock hand on the plant floor as he walks by a 1000-lb., 12-foot diameter clock constructed for a resort in Vietnam, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Medfield, Mass. Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. local time Sunday, March 14, 2021, when clocks are set ahead one hour.
ROCHESTER, Minn (WKBT) – We’ve made it around the calendar so it’s time again to reset your clocks.
Canadians spring clocks forward on Sunday as Yukon pitches benefit of ditching change
Electric Time technician Dan LaMoore adjusts a clock hand on a 1000-lb., 12-foot diameter clock constructed for a resort in Vietnam, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Medfield, Mass. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Elise Amendola March 13, 2021 - 1:00 AM
As other provinces and territories get ready to roll their clocks forward on Sunday, the government official behind Yukon s move away from the time shift says the territory s work will make it easier for others to end the practice.
When Yukon stopped changing its clocks in November, the territory rearranged flight schedules and worked with technology companies that are responsible for things like the clock in a vehicle that runs on a global positioning system.