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    SILK CLOCK, Midtown

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2023 7 comments

    THE famed Silk Clock in the Schwarzenbach Building, 470 Park Avenue South, periodically disappears for repairs, but it was apparently in working order when I passed it on PAS and East…

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    YORKVILLE CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2021 6 comments

    The Yorkville Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue and East 85th Street has been here since 1898 — lasting an entire century and parts of two others. Like many other sidewalk clocks it originally…

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    CONHEIM’S CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2019
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2019 12 comments

    I recently took a walk on the east-west streets in lower Manhattan looking for oddities and anachronisms. There aren’t many 19th-century buildings surviving on John Street in lower Manhattan, but…

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    STEINWAY STREET CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2018
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2018 7 comments

    The Steinway Street Clock, in front of 30-78 Steinway between 30th and 31st Avenues, is one of a number of large, stolid street clocks designed by George Post. Except for…

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    FIRST TIME. Street clocks of 1st Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2007
    by Kevin Walsh September 6, 2007 0 comment

    Remember that Outer Limits episode where David McCallum creates a “time tilter” out of about 200 clocks and a lot of piano wire? Your webmaster is also a clock aficionado. The basic clock…

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    STREET CLOCKS

    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 1999
    by Kevin Walsh May 1, 1999 7 comments

    Decorative street clocks were often placed on sidewalks to attract business, especially jewelry stores. On this page we’ll take a look at some of the ornamental clocks that grace the sidewalks…

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