Delacorte Clock — Attraction in New York

Not far from the Central Park Zoo you can find the quaint Delacorte clock. The clock contains representations of animals playing instruments, and plays music every half hour, at 0 and 30 minutes past the hour, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.  My son was keen to see this and take both photos and a short video. He remembers the cartoon version of this clock from the film "Madagascar" and was so pleased to see the real thing.

As we waited for the next "performance" at the top of the hour we were surprised to see so many people walking under the clock without ever seeming to notice it....

“I love it, it's very old movie.

Outside it drizzles, grey.

New York City, enveloped in the light mist.

Two lovers have a date to meet at 6 o'clock.

It's four minutes to six.

You're pacing up and down, rain drops have just started to fall.

You're at your Delacorte clock in Central Park.

he's waiting, the music plays.

And she never comes.

Or she's waiting and he chooses the other...

Reminiscent of Herald Square's clock of animated ironwork sculptures, the Delacourte Clock chimes every half hour, to which everybody from the zoo and passersby flock. The ironwork is impressively lifelike. A sturdy plaque commemorates the clock, and a lone statue (like those which rotate) is niched...