{"nrhp_refnum":"88002362","name":"US Post Office-Knickerbocker Station","other_names":["Knickerbocker Station Post Office"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"130 E. Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.71404589700006,"lon":-73.99161600299993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick post office at 130 East Broadway on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, designed in 1935 and built in 1935-7 by consulting architect William Dewey Foster. Originally known as Station \"B\", it is a Colonial Revival building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of 1930s federal architecture built under Depression-era public works programs. It shows typical post office features such as a symmetrical facade, a central entrance, brick and masonry construction and a standardized plan. It is also considered perhaps the most successful of Foster's Colonial Revival postal stations in New York City.","narrative":"Knickerbocker Station is a two-story brick post office at 130 East Broadway on Manhattan's Lower East Side, built in 1935-7 to designs by William Dewey Foster. Foster was one of several private architects hired as consultants to the Supervising Architect's office during the expanded public building programs of the Great Depression. The building uses red brick in English bond, granite trim and a mansard roof. Its main facade centers on a projecting pedimented pavilion with a large multi-paned arched window, ocular windows and a carved roundel of Mercury. Inside, the public lobby keeps its marble wainscoting, plaster cornice and cream terrazzo floor. The building is a Colonial Revival work and is one of five Manhattan stations Foster designed. It is regarded as his most fully developed Colonial Revival postal station in the city. It has long served the Lower East Side's diverse, multi-ethnic community.","period_of_significance":"1935-7","architect_builder":"William Dewey Foster, Consulting Architect","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is rated good and the building is occupied and in government use. The nomination states that it retains integrity on both the exterior and interior.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.445347-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88002362.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002362/f983d66381-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002362/f983d66381-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knickerbocker-post-office-130-e-broadway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knickerbocker-post-office-130-e-broadway.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"00001015","name":"Lower East Side Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/lower-east-side-historic-district-00001015/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313837","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Post_Office_(Knickerbocker_Station)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7891148"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/us-post-office-knickerbocker-station-88002362/"}