US Post Office

Small, yet efficient post office located by the intersection of White Plains Road and East 241^st Street (the street turns into Yonkers Avenue when you cross the Westchester-​Bronx county border, while it turns to Baychester Avenue when you head east on it.) Unlike the larger Wakefield Post office at East 233^rd Street, this office is small and doesn’t attract many lines. Growing up in the neighborhood, it was my preferred place to mail small parcels. Located next door to the East 241^st subway station and the last stop on the numbers 2 and 5 trains, this post office happens to be the northernmost post office in New York City. The area was sketchy back during the 1980s when an Off Track Betting (OTB) location operated in the retail space next door, and for sometime the intersection where it was located was rated as the most violent intersection in the city with regards to homicides (all attributed to the OTB location). Since that location has closed, things have gotten better and the post office continues to provide service to those working in the Woodlawn, Wakefield, and Baychester neighborhoods of the Bronx and neighboring Mount Vernon in Westchester County.