United States Post Office (Cooper Station)

"Cooper Station" redirects here. For another station known by this name, see Cooper station (Connecticut).

United States Post Office Cooper Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York State Register of Historic Places
(2023)
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Location	93 4th Avenue Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°43′55″N73°59′24″W / 40.73194°N 73.99000°W / 40.73194; -73.99000
Built	1937 [1]
Architect	William Dewey Foster
Architectural style	Art Moderne [1]
MPS	US Post Offices in New York State, 1858-1943, TR
NRHP reference No.	88002360
NYSRHP No.	06101.001781
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 11, 1989 [2]
Designated NYSRHP	May 11, 1989

Mural1: An Archaic Man Returns to the Hudson River Valley 2008

The United States Post Office Cooper Station, located at 93 Fourth Avenue, on the corner of East 11th Street in Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1937, and was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster in the Art Moderne style for the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury. It serves the 10003 ZIP code, which covers the neighborhood of the East Village. Its sub-station is located on East 3rd Street near Avenue C.

Mural2: Moses on the Hudson River 2008

Digital photo of the Cooper Station postmark on a letter sent by East-Village-based poet W. H. Auden in 1965

The post office is named in honor of Peter Cooper, the mid-19th century industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearby The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. ^[2]

In popular culture

The fictional character Newman from the television sitcom Seinfeld supposedly worked here. A photo of the building was frequently used as an establishing shot for scenes involving him.

Murals at the Peter Cooper USPS

Moses a.k.a. Mark makes boats out of Styrofoam, driftwood and plastic rope from giant cables dropped from barges ferrying the Hudson River. Privately, he spends his Summer's in a remote campsite, in the Palisades Cliffs, 18 miles North on the New Jersey side of the Great North River. (old name)

Moses has been coming to the site since the early 1980's. The currents of the Hudson River are to be taken seriously. It is a tidal estuary which is rarely not a torrent spinning clockwise or counterclockwise; depending upon the tides. Moses would canoe all the way down to Manhattan then return, on the opposite side.

Moses took me back to the top of a giant rock spire. The lenni lenape indians called these rocks weehawken like the town in New Jersey of the same name. Translated this means "rocks in rows like trees." When you look over the edge your eyes drop 1000 feet down to the Hudson River.

When public outcry over the stone spires' destruction to make cement. Philanthropist John D.

Rockefeller stepped in and bought 50 miles of the coast line to preserve the view from his estate. He deeded it to the states of New York and New Jersey to be left wild and unmolested. The WPA hired stone carvers to create the Grand Staircase; a giant set of stone stairs carved out of the hillside rocks and associated pathways into and through the abandoned quarries. The workers accomplished this with such skill that their work seems done by times erosion, an archaic man or mother nature.

Murals by Addison Thompson NYC

References

1. White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 162. ISBN   978-0-19538-386-7.
2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

External links

• Media related to United States Post Office (Cooper Station) at Wikimedia Commons
• Map and Business Hours – USPS website
• Lombardi, Kristin (March 7, 2006). "Not Subject to Review". The Village Voice. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2024. Hudson [Companies, the Brooklyn developer, ] acquired St. Ann's Church from the New York archdiocese in December 2004. The next month, the company bought additional air rights for the Peter Cooper Station Post Office, on East 11th Street, from the United States Postal Service. The transfer of those air rights allows Hudson to erect a far larger building—with another 61,000 square feet, by neighbors' calculation an extra 62 percent of room—than the developer otherwise could.