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.
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.
In popular culture
The fictional character
Newman
Newman is a surname of English origin and may refer to many people:
The surname Newman is widespread in the core Anglosphere.
A
*Abram Newman (1736–1799), British grocer
*Adrian Newman (disambiguation), multiple people
*Al Newman (born 1960) ...
from the television sitcom
Seinfeld
''Seinfeld'' ( ) is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and List of Seinfeld episodes, 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld ( ...
supposedly worked here. A photo of this corner building was frequently used as an
establishing shot for scenes involving hm.
References
External links
*
Map and Business Hours– USPS website
*Lombardi, Kristin
''
Village Voice'' (March 7, 2006) – USPS sells air rights for Cooper Station Post Office
Cooper Station
East Village, Manhattan
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