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We got a sneak peak (SEE photo) of the new US Post Office going in on the 27th Street side of the Grand Madison building (225 5th Avenue) just a block up from Madison Square Park. I know a lot of you never go to a post office anymore, but for those who do, this is going to add some convenience for the Madison Square Park and Nomad areas, for small businesses, returns, and those gift boxes around the holidays that we used to have to take to the post office at 23rd and Lexington.

With the addition in the last 5 years of thousands of apartment and condo units in the Madison Square Park area, plus a commercial office and retail surge, we can understand why they would add a new post office. It is also a smaller space, which reflects a proposed strategy of smaller post offices in convenient locations, while closing some of the massive and empty old post offices.

Construction looks nearly complete and it should be open this summer.

 

The new Citi Bike racks are in just west of Madison Square Park as part of the massive new NYC bike sharing program. Now we just need the bikes. The program lets you grab a bike out of the rack and ride to your destination and then return it to another bike rack station. There [...]

The Mayor has announced that you can now include “Toys, Plastic Yogurt and Coffee Cups, Food Containers and All Rigid Plastic” to your recycling bin in addition to glass and metal. The news release tells us that the recycling expansion will reduce landfill by 50,000 additional tons of waste a year and save taxpayers “almost $600,000 each year in export costs”.

Please recycle – it’s so easy, and it saves so much landfill waste.

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It seems a new park space going in outside of the New York, New York Hotel in Las Vegas got its inspiration from our very own Madison Square Park, according to AP. It will be built by MGM Resorts International for $100 million over the next 18 months and will even include a Shake Shack (makes sense) and a replica of the Brooklyn Bridge (?). I think they could use a bit of lawn and maybe some art projects or a dog run to start to look like Madison Square Park, but regardless, it’s nice to know people have singled out Madison Square Park as a model.

MGM CEO Jim Murren said he was “inspired by New York City’s small and cosmopolitan Madison Square Park, as opposed to the more sprawling Central Park”, according to the article.

Business Insider got a rendering of the proposed park (photo Right).

Just in time for the warmer weather, the flowers are blooming all over Madison Square Park (thanks to the timely work of the Madison Square Park Conservancy). With temperatures up on the 70′s today, I suspect it would be a great place to eat lunch.

Do some spring cleaning and help the environment! On Saturday, April 6th at Tekserve (119 West 23rd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue), they are having another eWaste Recycling Event, where you can safely recycle old electronic equipment such as computers, printers, monitors, cell phones, radios, DVD players and more. Stop by between 10am-4pm. The [...]