Believe it or not there's a Wikipedia page devoted to the Bay Shore Post Office, though it's a mistake to still call it that. As the page will attest, the post office was one of many WPA facilities to be added to the National Register of Historic Places, in 1988.
As the town expanded, the post office needed more room to operate, and primary operations were moved to the outskirts of the town in the '60s (or, what appears to be the '60s based on the architecture of the building, shown below). It's quite a nice building: white brick with light blue accents.
Thus, the "original" [historic] Bay Shore post office is now its downtown Penataquit Station.The best part of the new office, in the author's opinion, is this wonderful mosaic featuring the Post Office Department logo:
Well, almost. It WAS a beautiful mosaic with the old logo; however it now features a bolted Sonic Eagle [new USPS logo] on top of it. Some people have no sense of posterity:
How utterly stupid to bolt the USPS emblem right on top of the mosaic! Maybe it's time to keep up with the times and attach a slightly smaller lighted "Sonic Eagle" on top of the 1971 emblem.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the New York post office book, Penataquit station of Bay Shore opened Oct. 29, 1965. So that must be when the main office moved to the newer building.
Furthermore, before 1868, Bay Shore was called Penataquit!
The Penataquit Station post office is the post office for my area of Bay Shore. It is still open, and still a post office. There was a threat of closing it, but the community rallied around it, and saved it. Today is April 14, 2020.
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