The signs have been up almost as long as Trainjotting has been around: A long and skinny board, shaped like a thermometer, the words, Tick Tock, Time For a Clock on it.
There’s one in front of Hawthorne Station (the tiny green there is now known as a “pocket park”), and another at the Four Corners in Thornwood. People are asked to donate for fancy grandfather clocks, slated to go at Hawthorne Station and at the former Thornwood Station (now the Chamber of Commerce). When enough people give the red-painted “mercury” climbs up the thermometer to another level.
Well, the Examiner reports that the hamlets have mustered up a sufficient amount of mercury, and the Mount Pleasant Town Board has approved the $46,000 required to buy the two clocks.
An additional $4,000 will be spent on installing them, which commences in the spring.
In addition to the clock, Hawthorne station’s pocket park–my out-of-office when I get an important work-related call that I don’t want to take on the train ride home–will get “new plantings and benches.”
We’re holding out for a jacuzzi, cigar humidor, and foosball table.