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Planning and design for a post office in the then-independent city of Brooklyn, New York, began in 1885.During his three-year tenure (1884–86), [2] Mifflin E. Bell, supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury Department, designed the building in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture.
A post office may have operated in New York City as early as 1687. The United States Postal Service has no information on New York's postmasters prior to the year 1775. The New York City Post Office is first mentioned in Hugh Finlay's journal dated 1773 which lists Alexander Colden as the postmaster of New York City.
Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue (Bay Parkway) and on the southwest by 86th Street.
US Post Office-Parkville Station, originally known as Station "Y," is a historic post office building located at Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, New York, United States.It was built in 1936, and designed by consulting architect Carroll H. Pratt for the Office of the Supervising Architect.
US Post Office-Metropolitan Station, originally known as Station "A," is a historic post office building located at Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, United States.It was built in 1936, and is one of a number of post offices in New York designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon.
US Post Office-Kensington is a historic post office building located at Kensington in Brooklyn, New York, United States. It was built in 1935, and designed by consulting architect Lorimer Rich for the Office of the Supervising Architect. The building is a two-story, six bay wide brick building in the Colonial Revival style. For much of its ...
Using the Brooklyn Bridge, a spur line also ran from Church Street in lower Manhattan to the General Post Office in Brooklyn, taking four minutes. [1] Operators of the system were called "Rocketeers". [3] Though 10 cities were funded for pneumatic mail, the New York operation was the most developed.
Brooklyn's water borders are extensive and varied, including Jamaica Bay; the Atlantic Ocean; The Narrows, separating Brooklyn from the borough of Staten Island in New York City and crossed by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge; Upper New York Bay, separating Brooklyn from Jersey City and Bayonne in the U.S. state of New Jersey; and the East River ...