(October 19, 2014) On 149th street in the Bronx, students wearing Beats headphones wait for the bus, mothers trickle out of fast food restaurants; food in one hand, strollers in the other, and at the T-Mobile store on the corner customers flock to buy the latest smartphone. But across the street, the historic Bronx General…
News editor rides subway back to his old neighborhood to inspect the Bronx General Post Office where his father once worked nights, loading mail onto delivery trucks. The US Postal Service recently announced the stately building on the Grand Concourse has been sold. I grew up in the Bronx, the son of a career postal…
(September 4, 2014) The New York Daily News is reporting that the Postal Service has sold the Bronx General Post Office to Youngwoo & Associates. Back in February, The Real Deal had reported that Youngwoo was proposing to use the site to build a marketplace in the vein of the company’s unsuccessful plan for the…
