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.
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Check out this weekend s MTA service changes. (Patch)
NEW YORK, NY As vaccinations hit millions of arms and the city slowly reopens, New Yorkers are getting back on the subway. In another sign of the return of normality, they re also dealing with a multitude of weekend service changes.
Riders are returning to the rails in record numbers – on March 12, 1.9 million paid trips were made. That s more than on any day in the past year.
But getting around this weekend is still going to be tough with 14 lines disrupted in the name of upgrading and maintaining our tracks, stations and signal systems in order to continue to provide our customers with safe and reliable service.
UpdatedFri, Apr 9, 2021 at 4:00 pm ET
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Check out this weekend s MTA service changes. (Patch)
NEW YORK, NY As vaccinations hit millions of arms and the city slowly reopens, New Yorkers are getting back on the subway. In another sign of the return of normality, they re also dealing with a multitude of weekend service changes.
Riders are returning to the rails in record numbers – on April 8 more than 2 million paid trips were made. That s more than on any day in the past year.
But getting around this weekend is still going to be tough with 8 lines disrupted in the name of upgrading and maintaining our tracks, stations and signal systems in order to continue to provide our customers with safe and reliable service.