N.Y. Worker Gets Paid for Watching the Clock
Mayor David N. Dinkins has appointed the city’s first clock master since the 1930s.
Dinkins on Friday gave the job to Marvin Schneider, a Human Resources Administration worker who has maintained city-owned clocks on an unofficial basis since 1980.
Schneider will still work for the HRA, but will be granted 40 hours a year paid release time to work on six city-owned clocks. Those clocks are atop City Hall, the Met Life Building, the old Sun Building at 680 Broadway, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Staten Island Borough Hall and the Harlem Courthouse.
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