United States Post Office Cooper Station | |
(2023) | |
| Location | 934th 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 |
TheUnited States Post Office Cooper Station, located at 93Fourth Avenue, on the corner ofEast 11th Street inManhattan,New York City, was built in 1937, and was designed by consulting architectWilliam Dewey Foster in theArt Moderne style for theOffice of the Supervising Architect of theUnited States Department of the Treasury. It serves the 10003ZIP code, which covers the neighborhood of theEast Village. Its sub-station is located onEast 3rd Street nearAvenue C.[3]

The post office is named in honor ofPeter Cooper, the mid-19th century industrialist and philanthropist who founded the nearbyThe Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
The building was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]
The fictional characterNewman from the television sitcomSeinfeld supposedly worked here. A photo of the building was frequently used as anestablishing shot for scenes involving him.
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.
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