Going back a few years, Schenectady finally completed a prolonged downtown reconstruction that kept State Street in the general Proctors block vicinity torn-up seemingly forever.
About $22 million in mainly state funding was spent to replace underground infrastructure, narrowing and repaving streets and putting up a super structure to hide the ugly railroad bridge over the city's main drag. Downtown was in disarray for several years.
Anyway, one of the lesser components of the project was a $26,000 street clock. While that sounded a little pricey, the Little Ben is a handsome streetscape addition. It was custom built by a 167-old Cincinnati clock company.
Unfortunately, the clock face is no longer lighted at night and the hands are stuck at 10 minutes after 10. Apparently city officials aren't at all concerned because it's been inoperable for about two weeks.
Oh, well, at least the clock time is correct twice a day.
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This works about as well as the all KRAT City Government/school bored. On second thought the clock is right twice a day.
