James Farley Post Office
The U.S. General Post Office, or also referred to as James A. Farley Building is the main post office in New York City. The post office was built in the style of Beaux -Arts architecture has the zip code 10,001th 's planned McKim, Mead, and White building is the only post office in New York City, which opened to the public seven days a week around the clock has. As of 2002 worked 2500 postal workers in the building. The building was built from 1912 to 1914.
The Facade of the colonnade is located on the west side of Eighth Avenue, across from Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden, between the 31st and 33rd Street in Manhattan, where it occupies two blocks. It sits across the tracks of the North -East corridor ( Farley Corridor ) in the Western Midtown. It was registered on 29 January 1973 in the National Register of Historic Places. The colonnade is the longest of its kind in the world.
History
The James A. Farley Building was built in two stages. The original monumental front half was built from 1912 to 1914 and opened to the public. 1934, the area of the building was doubled under the former Postmaster General James A. Farley; the post office at the corner of Park Row and Broadway from 1878 was then closed. On the side facades which lead up to Ninth Avenue, the architects have inserted more columns Corinthian order between the Jochfenstern. This was done to reflect the element of the front facade to Ninth Avenue. Farley's General Builders Corporation construction company had been awarded the contract for growing under the administration of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
The building was one of the last, which was created under the Tarsney Act. Until 1893 all civilian federal agencies have been salaried architects in the Office of the Supervising Architect within the United States Department of the Treasury. The law of 1893, which was introduced by a congressman from Missouri, allowed the monitoring architect, in a contest to select a private architect. James Knox Taylor picked out for the post office McKim. 1913 Act as a result of a scandal was partially lifted. This was created when Taylor 's former partner Cass Gilbert to certain, to customize the design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.
The monumental facade on Eighth Avenue was created as a Corinthian colonnade and edged at the ends of two pavilions. The purpose of imposing the draft was to the Colonnades of projected 1910 by McKim, Mead, and White to match Pennsylvania Station, which was originally on the other side of the street. An unbroken series of steps that runs the full length of the colonnades, provides access to the main floor for the customer traffic that is above a functional basement. It rises over a dry moat, which grants the working spaces in the basement air and light. Each of the square pavilion is covered by a low, pyramidal shaped roof. Inside the visitor's eye falls freely on a long gallery, which runs parallel to the colonnaded front. At the northern end of it there is a small post- historical museum.
Prominent place, above the colonnade, there is the inscription: " Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays synthesis couriers from the swift completion of Their appointed rounds", which is often misunderstood as the motto of the United States Postal Service - there are there is no such official motto - actually it was chosen by William Mitchell Kendall. It was that employees of the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White, that the amount in the 8th book (Chapter 98) of the histories of Herodotus took. The passage refers to the faithful service which contributed the Post tab of the Achaemenid Empire under Xerxes I.. The design of the inscription was created by Ira Schnapp, who would later create the logo of Action Comics and other publications by DC Comics.
At the opening of 1914, the post office was called Pennsylvania Terminal, in July 1918 it was renamed the General Post Office Building and 1982 it was in the James A. Farley Building renamed. James Farley was 1933-1940 the 53rd Postmaster General of the United States. Farley, a native New Yorker played a significant role in the political careers of Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was even a candidate at the 1940 nominating convention of the Democratic Party.
" ... The life of James A. Farley should present and future generations of Americans serve as an example of how individual citizens can serve the life of the whole nation through conscientious use. "
The Farley Building played a major role after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when the post office took over the duties of the Church Street Station Post Office, which was located across the street side of the World Trade Center.
Remodeling plans
There are plans to use the Farley Building as the new entrance hall of the Pennsylvania Station. Apart from the switches for the sale of postal services should express mail, post issue, the ramps for cars and a postal stamp bearing persist, just as well as the administrative offices of the Postal Service for New York.
The post handling facilities, however, should rest continued a block in the Morgan Processing and Distribution Center and all other administrative functions are relocated to the post office on Church Street. Only about 900 jobs remain under the plans at this point.