patrick_y[PuristSPro Moderator]
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Valuable and Beautiful Clock At Starbucks at 200 Water Street, New York City
Mar 03, 2022,23:03 PM
Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have seen this popular clock. But despite frequenting New York City since a young age, I never really noticed it. But the past two times I've visited NYC, I've stayed in the Downtown area. I normally stay in Mid-Town, but the hotel rooms at the big hotels were too expensive, over $1000 a night! So I stayed in the downtown neighborhood where rates were considerably lower. I happened to discover this clock one day while I was walking around the downtown neighborhood.
The 45 by 50 foot digital clock was created by American artist Rudolph de
Harak, and is a part of 200 Water Street, a 32-story mixed use building (offices and residential) owned by New York University. Installed in 1971, this
three-story high clock consists of 72 square sections, each containing a
number from 00 to 59, using red colors to tell the hour, blue for the minutes, and green for the seconds.
The clock has no specific value, but would cost over a million dollars to install today (best estimate). Starbucks is a tenant of the building, and didn't install the clock themselves, the clock was already there before Starbucks became a tenant.
The time is 11h:21m:19s but what happens when the green seconds meets the blue minute?
Time is 11:21:21 Ahh, the seconds and minutes are the same color, green.
Time is 11h:21m:22s
I thought it was pretty cool. I was in a rush to get somewhere. But even I had to pause for a moment to absorb the beauty and scale of this clock! Too bad, I only had "A New York Minute!"