From DNAInfo New York: "The campaign to stop the sale of the historic Bronx General Post Office is moving to the streets and the courts, advocates say, after federal regulators rejected an appeal of the proposed sale of the building. "On Saturday, local residents, postal workers and allies from as far away as California will meet at Lincoln Hospital and then march … Read More
Democracy rests finally upon us: Saving the Bronx General Post Office
On Saturday, September 21, there will be “Day of Action to Save the Post Office” in the Bronx, New York. The event begins with an “Emergency Meeting to Save the Post Office” at 11:00 a.m. at the Lincoln Hospital Auditorium, 234 East 149th Street. Then at 12:30 there will be a march to the Bronx General Post Office for a “Community … Read More
In the Bronx: A Day of Action to Save the Post Office
On Saturday, September 21, 2013, there will be a "Day of Action to Save the Post Office" in the Bronx, New York. Here are the details: At 11:00 AM at the Lincoln Hospital Auditorium, 234 East 149th Street ,Bronx, NY, an "Emergency Meeting to Save the Post Office" is scheduled: Learn what you can do to Save Bronx GPO, stop the cutbacks, and restore the … Read More
Bronx GPO interior gets landmark status
The Landmarks Conservancy has agreed to grant landmark protection status to the interior of the Bronx General Post Office, with its priceless murals by Ben Shahn, one of America’s leading Social Realist artists. The exterior had been declared a landmark previously, so this extends protection to the interior as well. Video here.
NY Times take a look at the Bronx GPO before it’s sold
The historic Bronx General Post Office will soon be sold. An appeal to the USPS failed, as did an appeal to the Postal Regulatory Commission. There's not much left to stand in the way of the sale except for dealing with historic preservation regulations. The New York Times has a piece on the post office, the murals, and the inevitable … Read More
Hurdles in sale of Bronx GPO
Bronx Times reporter David Cruz has been following the story on the sale of the Bronx GPO since the beginning, and he has a new story today about the efforts to stop the sale. "The sale of the iconic Bronx General Post Office may not be as easy as the U.S. Postal Service thought," writes Cruz. "Residents, labor groups … Read More
Serrano provision in spending bill checks on lawfulness of Bronx GPO, would suspend sale of historic post offices
Congressman José E. Serrano today announced that he had succeeded in including a provision in an annual appropriations bill moving through the House of Representatives that would ensure that the Postal Service’s proposed sale of the historic Bronx General Post Office receives extra scrutiny. The provision calls for the suspension of the sale of historic properties like the Bronx … Read More
The Postal Service moves forward on selling the historic post offices in Berkeley and the Bronx
Yesterday two of the country’s most significant historic post offices — the 1916 Berkeley post office and the 1935 Bronx GPO — came a step closer to being sold. Mr. Tom Samra, USPS Vice President, Facilities, rendered his final decision on the Berkeley post office. The Postal Service will relocate retail services to a yet-to-be-determined location, and the historic building … Read More
USPS to Bronx: Drop dead — the GPO must go
The Postal Service has decided to go ahead with the sale of the historic Bronx General Post Office. Tom Samra, Vice President of Facilities for the USPS, has issued his “Final Decision for Relocation of Retail Services in Bronx, New York.” (A copy is here.) The Bronx GPO is on the National Register of Historic Places, it's an official New … Read More
Binding the nation together: Berkeley and the Bronx join forces to save the post office
For our Founding Fathers, post offices and post roads played an essential role in “binding our nation together.” Congress reaffirmed that vision when it passed the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970: “The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together.” The leaders of the Postal Service appear to have … Read More
A Bronx Cheer for the Postal Service: The Fire Sale of Historic Post Offices Continues
Earlier this week the Postal Service announced that it planned to sell the historic post office on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, New York. There's an excellent article about the post office by David W. Dunlap in Friday's New York Times. The Bronx General Post Office is the largest of twenty-nine Depression-era post offices in New York City. Built in … Read More
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