Farley Post Office

Originally named the Pennsylvania Terminal Building, the James A. Farley Post Office was designed as a companion to the original Penn Station, which was demolished in 1964. After serving in World War II, one letter carrier worked there when the entire city had a single postal zone. As mail volume grew over the next 20 years, the United States Postal Service created the Zone Improvement Program, and by 1966 a ZIP code was mandatory for every address. The site is also associated with the words of U.S. airmail pilot E. Hamilton Lee, who flew from 1918 to 1927: “Don’t be a show-off. Never be too proud to turn back. There are old pilots and bold pilots, but no old, bold pilots.”

New York, New York · United States