October 20, 2007: Vol. 30, No. 41
Past issues
The Paper in print
RSS feeds
Print edition (PDF)
Email Alerts- The current issue
- Neighborhood Map
- Bay Ridge
- Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
- Brooklyn Heights
- Downtown, DUMBO
- Carroll Gardens
- Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
- Fort Greene
- Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
- North Brooklyn
- Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
- Park Slope
- Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
- GO Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Cyclones
- Not Just Nets
- Police Blotter
- Perspective
- Parenting
- Politics
- Transit
- Podcasts
- The Brooklyn Bride
- Brooklyn Boom
- Classifieds
- Merchant news
- About The Paper
- RSS Feeds
-
Print this story
digg
del.icio.usFlatbush Avenue’s two Victorian-style street-clocks will tick-tock-tick again by the end of October.
The free-standing, 12-foot clock towers — originally hoisted in 1982 where Flatbush intersects with Sterling Place and Sixth Avenue — have had one bad stroke of luck after another.
At 3:11 on a still-undetermined day in 2004, the clock Sterling Place clocked stopped ticking. The hands of time remained frozen — telling the right time just twice a day! — until repairs were made in July, 2005.
Five months later, a bad driver knocked it over. So much for the repairs. Meanwhile, the sister clock at Sixth Avenue had also rebelled against the passage of time, refusing to mark another minute.
Fortunately, North Flatbush Business Improvement District Executive Director Dawn Torres has made it her mission to wind up these beloved clocks again. By June, the clock at Sixth Avenue (above) was again ticking.
At the same time, Torres had lined up $15,000 to resurrect the car-destroyed clock at Sterling Place — mostly by finally getting the driver’s insurance company to pay up. By the end of October, that clock should also be running.
That’s good for Murat Uyaroglu, owner of Prospect Perk coffee shop — though not because he needs help keeping time.
“It’s going to be a good landmark for my business,” said Uyaroglu. “Let’s say you want to meet someone; you can meet him under the clock, right near my shop.”
©2007 The Brooklyn Paper
Enter your comment below
By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:
You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.
