Perhaps it’s time for Douglas Durst to further strengthen his family’s eagle-eyed compulsion with serious civic issues. After all, it was Douglas’ father, Seymour, who in 1989 invented the National Debt Clock and installed the continuously updating tracker at the old Durst Building on Sixth Avenue near 42nd Street.

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It moved about eight years ago to its current location on Anita’s Way, a through-block between One Bryant Park and One W. 42nd St. And it never stops. As I type this paragraph at 12:06:52 on Thursday afternoon, that number is $37,843,895,092,761.

Um, make that $37,843,895,099,803 …

Anyway, that clock was never meant to solve anything. It was meant to serve partly as a conscience, partly as a stern and constant reminder of a national shortcoming. And that is why I suggest that the Douglas family turn its attention to the other local municipal issue whose number keeps growing, higher and higher, seemingly out of control.