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There's been an unusual amount of mail-related news lately. First, the Church Street post office just a block away from the World Trade Center has finally reopened. Tribeca residents, who had previously walked by the closed post office (where someone does stand guard), now rejoice in not having to go to Canal Street, Bowling Green or other locations for their mail. Also yesterday, a man robbed a post office at 340 West 42nd Street of $2,300 - and the surveillance cameras weren't working. Though the USPS is looking into whether it was an inside job, they are offering $50,000 for information that leads to an arrest and capture. Finally, the Times looked at what happens when you send mail to streets using their honorary names; one woman who works on Alvin Ailey Place, aka West 61st Street, explains by numbers rule:
No one is ever going to call 61st Street 'Alvin Ailey Place.' Only a crazy person would call it that. The beauty of New York City is, you can't get lost because everything is numbered until you get to Greenwich Village, and I'm a mess in Greenwich Village. So to start calling these streets by names, it would take away the cleanliness of the grid. It would lead to chaos.Long live the grid, but there's nothing wrong with Joey Ramone Place.
An article about honorary street names in NYC, the Sesame Street song "People In Your Neighborhood" talks about the postman, there's the group Postal Service, and back in the day, the postman would ring twice.
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$50,000 for $2,300 stolen... is that why the post office is always raising the price of stamps?
Isn't Avenue of the Americas an honorary name? 'Cuz I use that all of the time, and my mail gets there just fine.
Isn't there a "Hell Station" up in Spanish Harlem? I swear I've seen it before. Talk about honorary names...
Renaming streets is the one thing the City Council is actually able to do, and they do it often. Costs are minimal, impact is minimal and they get to toss out some sops to minor players to keep them happy.
I used to work in that building. My company had to move out after 9/11 due to the contamination. i hope they did a thorough cleaning there. I am looking forward to visiting. It's been almost three years since I set foot in 90 Church. I am glad to see it's back--it is a gorgeous building.
Nope, Avenue the Americas is the official name of 6th Ave now.
Avenue OF the Americas, that is ;p
Go get the west village UPS (not USPS) station because all they can do is not deliver your package but I have gotten more than not (5 total) of random packages, some from overseas. Not that they are contributing but give me a break about avoiding problems.
I feel it appropriate to also mention the closing of the Bowling Green post office. They apparently lost their lease, so all of their mail is going to be re-routed to the Pine Street office. I don't want to think about how disorganized it's gonna be, considering that my office has to wait until 5 pm on Mondays for the mail, and it hasn't even closed yet.
I came across the sign for People with AIDS Plaza a while back and i still can't help but chuckle while considering the boardroom full of beaurocrats trying to settle on that specific phrase...is there already a Leper Square?... did they really think they were doing something nice? it sounds like a quarantine pen. group think, ya think?