lucky time It’s Spring Forward Time for Some Famous New York Clocks

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 filing due today in Mayor Eric Adams’s corruption case.lucky time

ImageFrank Galasso, the director of engineering at the New York Edition Hotel, with equipment that controls one of the big clocks on the face of the hotel, in the former Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building.Credit...James Barron/The New York Times

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.

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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.

The change could come at a critical moment of the presidential campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, who has worked to offset longstanding criticisms of the administration’s handling of the southern border. Ms. Harris plans to visit the border in Arizona on Friday.

“This is not just a central challenge,jiliace but a challenge that is winnable,” David Plouffe, a senior Harris adviser who served as former President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2012, said in an interview.

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.

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