• The clock building was once the home of the Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper edited by Walt Whitman.
  
• An oculus is an eyelike opening or ornament such as a round window.
  
• The clock runs on an electric motor and needs no maintenance. It has been repaired once in the last seven years.

Sheila's Fab Finds

• George Nelson Ball Clock
  $225
  MoMa Design Store
  212-708-9400
  www.moma.org