Queens Plaza gets ready to go green in Long Island City Tuesday linkage

“The new Queens Plaza Park will transform an ocean of asphalt into a lush green oasis at the heart of Long Island City,” said City Planning Commissioner Amanda M. Burden

That’s one impressive 1.5-acre park.

I hate our local post office-talk about horrible, slow service…but I hope it’ doesn’t close. What is the next closest one? Why can’t they just add the self-serve machines and lay off the employees?

That’s not a twelve-year-old. That’s a disgruntled postal worker.

Yeah, #23. All the time they spend losing my packages and putting me on hold forever when I call to find out where they are leaves them lots of time to come up with evocative imagery – like that Mt. Everest remark.
A buncha performance art geniuses they are, I tell ya!

Well that’s great for you, #8, but some of us still rely on the Post Office to send packages more cheaply than fedex & ups… like I sais previopsuly, they should do away with the people at the Post Office and set up more machines.

As farty and old-fashioned as the Post Office is, I still like them. There’s something enjoyable, in a perverse way, to dealing with an authentic person to buy stamps and send off a package, often in a beautiful old building. Except when the place is jammed, I don’t mind waiting for 10 minutes on line checking out the other oddballs there or maybe running into a neighbor. It’s one of the last vestiges we have to a bygone age. Of course, it can be slow and inefficient. But it has worked, and for a very long time. I see no compelling reason to do away with the places.

#12 Really? What other post office is everyone going to? Always a bit of a line when I go. It isn’t going anywhere.