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The Bronx General Post Office is located at 552–582 Grand Concourse in the South Bronx in New York City, United States. [3] The site occupies an entire city block, [4] [5] with an area of about 53,800 square feet (5,000 m 2; 1.24 acres). [6]
Between 1900 and 1930, the number of Bronx residents increased from 201,000 to 1,265,000. [ citation needed ] Inhabitants throughout the borough shopped in department stores and boutiques at 149th Street and 3rd Avenue, an area that came to be known in this time as "the Hub".
In 2011, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Grand Concourse from 153rd to 167th Streets as part of the Grand Concourse Historic District. [ 45 ] [ 53 ] The State of New York had previously nominated the buildings at 730–1000, 1100–1520, 1560, and 851–1675 Grand Concourse for listing on the National Register ...
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The station opened on July 10, 1905, along with the 149th Street–Grand Concourse station and the connection with the IRT Lenox Avenue Line in Manhattan. Free transfers were provided between the subway and the existing 149th Street elevated station of the IRT Third Avenue Line, which opened in 1887.
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The Mott Avenue station became the Grand Concourse–149th Street station on March 13, 1934, after Mott Avenue was renamed the Grand Concourse. [7]: 11 The city government took over the IRT's operations on June 12, 1940. [27] [28] The IRT routes were given numbered designations with the introduction of "R-type" rolling stock.
McLellan, who served as deputy director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy from 2009 to 2011, recalled recently talking to a despairing parent with an opiate-addicted son. The son had been through five residential treatment stays, costing the family more than $150,000.