Bomelstein's Jewelers Clock

753 Manhattan Avenue | Greenpoint | built 1930

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1900

    Bomelstein's Jewelers puts a cast-iron street clock on the sidewalk at 753 Manhattan Avenue

    The sidewalk clock outside Bomelstein's Jewelers was put up around the turn of the century. Atlas Obscura notes that street clocks like it carried advertising for the shop and gave the neighborhood a master timepiece for setting pocket watches, and that this one probably cost about $600. It was wound by hand, and its weight had to be raised again every eight days.

    Source: atlasobscura.com

  2. 1981

    August 25

    The city designates the Bomelstein's clock a landmark, Brooklyn's only surviving sidewalk clock

    The city designated the sidewalk clock at 753 Manhattan Avenue an individual landmark on August 25, 1981. The Historic Districts Council describes it as the only surviving sidewalk clock in Brooklyn, with a rectangular beveled base, a fluted column and a double-sided face. Cast-iron clocks of this kind date from the 1860s, when they served as practical conveniences and as eye-catching advertisements.

    Source: hdc.org

  3. 2001

    The landmarked Bomelstein's clock is restored and running again after the jeweler is gone

    Forgotten New York's page on street clocks notes that Bomelstein's Jewelers installed the clock on Manhattan Avenue decades earlier. The jeweler is gone, but because the city has landmarked the clock, it should stay indefinitely. The site records that as of 2001 the clock had been restored and was running again.

    Source: Forgotten New York

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