Secrets of the James A. Farley Post Office

James Farley is a name that came up a lot in our recent L.W.A. book club pick, Neither Snow, Nor Rain. (Book club is on Sunday, the 21st!) His name also adorns the main post office building in New York City; the same post office that famously bears the text "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" which inspired the title of the aforementioned book. Serendipitously, I was delighted by this link in my inbox containing all sorts of tidbits about the building. Did you know there's a museum inside? I didn't. I also didn't know it had secret tunnels and event spaces. Lastly, it's being converted into a part of the new plans for Penn Station train complex. Presumably, the post office will continue to operate in here in it's current limited capacity. Sad to think that they once ran 24 hours and employed 16,000 postal workers here. Now, it's only 200. 

Comments

[Katherine]

Something I can visit this week. I was going to go to Macy's and this is a couple blocks away :)

[Joe F.]

Your lament that the NY post office used to employ 16,000 people and run 24 hours a day makes me feel like re-(re-re-)reading _Going Postal_. And I just read it about 4 months ago.