There is much pro-Barack Obama stuff to be found in Williamsburg right now, including graffiti. (Most of it, though, is street art, t-shirts, stickers and the like.) We found this politically-charged tag on the construction fence surrounding our favorite Mystery Toxic Lot at 95 Bedford Avenue where, in reality, Karl Fischer will ultimately change everything.

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From a GL reader come the following query: “The post office on 7th Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets has lost its sign. They already had the gate in the front window down when I passed since they had closed several hours earlier. I could, however, see in the door and there certainly was no […]

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It has been some time since we came across tales of woe and despair from the notorious Times Plaza post office in Boerum Hill on Atlantic Avenue, (about which we have written many times). Today, we have new stories to relate from emails circulating, although they are relatively mild tales of woe compared to some […]

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If you live on Boerum Hill and you were waiting for your mail last week, there is a chance that it didn’t show up on several days. We saw a significant number of emails complaining about skipped deliveries, including one who was counting the number of days that her New Yorker was overdue. Here’s the […]

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“So, which Brooklyn Post Office bites the most? Is it the Kensington Post Officer, where the guy was went postal on the famous YouTube vid last year? The Times Plaza Post Office, whose horrors could generate its own blog? Or the Ninth Street Post Office in Park Slope, whos suckitude has also been well documented? […]

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These newest complaints from Boerum Hill are of a specific nature, but interesting in terms of some potentially new obstacles that residents face. Here’s one: I just came back from the post office to retrieve a package I had tracked; the information online was that a notice had been left (it wasn’t – or it […]

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We do love our Boerum Hill/Atlantic Avenue Times Plaza Post Office stories, particularly given the coverage we’ve done recently, for instance, here and here. So, here’s a angry email from the Yahool Boerum Hill Group that would indicate that claimed service improvements may not be taking place: had a horrendous, Third World experience at the […]

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It just could be that the way to get improvements at a Brooklyn Post Office that everyone’s unhappy with is to start a campaign of collection complaint that make their way into online, print and television media. So it is with Boerum Hill’s Times Plaza Station, aka the Nightmare Post Office. (A couple of weeks […]

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News 12 did a report on the Times Plaza Station in Boerum Hill that we’ve been posting about all week (and it turns out that some of the emails we from residents that we related were featured in the story). Someone posted the vid to YouTube, so check out the embed below, especially noting the […]

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From the Boerum Hill Association comes an email calling for the replacement of the Times Plaza Post Office, the frustrations of which we featured in two posts (here and here) earlier this week. Here is the email making the rounds from the Boerum Hill Group: The Times Plaza Post Office has been a source of […]

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Yesterday, we posted a number of complaints about the Times Plaza Station on Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenue. There were so many that a resident collected to send to a manager at the Postal Service who professes interest in fixing the situation that we decided to break the post into two parts. Here […]

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Complaints about and evaluations of postal service in Brooklyn never fail to amuse and enlighten. This one is about the Times Plaza Station on Atlantic Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenue. The comments come via the Boerum Hill Yahoo group, where a member has solicited and collected comments from readers to share with the officials […]

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There’s nothing like a good postal rant (or two or three or four or five or six) to brighten the day. Today, we’ve got two, found on the Park Slope Forum at the always interesting brooklynian.com. Rant Number One: Everyone knows there’s ‘issues’ with our mail carriers in the slope. I’ve had it all: Lost […]

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As if people using the Van Brunt Station on Ninth Street in Park Slope don’t have enough to complain about in terms of the, uh, service, we came across this item on the Park Slope Forum about a car getting nailed by a Postal Service truck. It apparently happened on Eighth Street. Here it is: […]

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We found this little tale of postal woe while scanning the brooklynian.com Park Slope Forum. There is something about it that is amusing in a pet that someone dumps three hundred miles from home that manages to find its way back sort of way. (Not that we find dumping pets funny. We love animals.) We […]

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Last time we checked on the quality of postal service in Boreum Hill, there were problems. Apparently, nothing has improved in the interim, according to this email we saw, especially if you like reading your New Yorker: I know there have been lots of discussions on these lists about bad post office service. I am […]

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