This weekend, Daylight Saving Time begins. Some clocks require special care.
This weekend, Daylight Saving Time begins. Some clocks require special care.
This weekend, Daylight Saving Time begins. Some clocks require special care.
Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at how the spring-forward time change this weekend happens with some of New York’s most famous clocks. We’ll also get details on a filingdue today in Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case.
There are places in New York where the spring-forward time change this weekend will be noticeable — buildings with clocks that just about anyone can see.
There are places in those buildings that almost no one ever sees — hidden-away rooms where the time change actually happens. Where time will speed up on Sunday morning. Where time will stop in the fall.
One such place is behind a locked door in a $1,331-a-night hotel room high above East 24th Street. Guests are not given a key to that door. Where their room has a bed with high-thread-count sheets and the sleek look of minimalism, the room behind the door has plate-size gears that have to be oiled regularly.
That room is home to the inner workings of one of the city’s most famous clocks, the one in what was originally the headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. An automated mechanism is set to move the hands from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. when the time comes. No longer does a night watchman have to do the job.