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229 West 43rd Street (formerly The New York Times Building, The New York Times Annex, and the Times Square Building) is an 18-story office building in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1913 and expanded in three stages, it was the headquarters of The New York Times newspaper until 2007.
New York City ultimately lost its bid to be host city to the 2012 Olympics to London. The clock showed the wrong figures for over a year in 2010–2011 until, in June 2011, the dial-up connection it had previously used to obtain an atomic time reading was updated. [4]
The Self Winding Clock Company (SWCC) was a major manufacturer of electromechanical clocks from 1886 until about 1970. [1] Based in New York City, the company was one of the first to power its clocks with an electric motor instead of winding by hand. A patented clock mechanism automatically rewinds the main spring each hour by the small ...
The Restored Dreger Clock in 2009 The Dreger Clock in 1998. The Dreger Clock is a large town clock with 19 different dials and displays which tell the local time, the time in 12 international cities (New York, Liverpool, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome and Mexico City), the phase of the moon, the date and the day of the week.
Several hundred sidewalk clocks had once existed in New York City, but only seven such clocks remained by the 1980s, including the Jamaica Avenue clock. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated all seven clocks as city landmarks in 1981. [5] The Jamaica Avenue clock was also added to the National Register of Historic ...
The clock's first incarnation was installed in 1989 on Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, one block away from Times Square, by New York real estate developer Seymour Durst, who wanted to highlight the rising national debt. In 2004, the clock was dismantled and a new one installed near 44th Street and Sixth Avenue.
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By then, Pier A was the oldest pier operating in New York City. The New York Times wrote: "The plan to rehabilitate the pier is something of a financial anomaly, owing in significant measure to the city’s money problems." [85] The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Pier A as a New York City landmark on July 12, 1977.