We previously looked into the green relay mailboxes in a Cities 101 article. They’re temporary holding spots for letter carriers whose carts or bags can’t hold everything on their route. A commenter ...

NEW YORK - A pair of green mailboxes, a notorious break-in target in Astoria, used to sit on 23rd Avenue. "I'm crossing the street, and all of a sudden, I see the boxes moved, and I just kind of ...

There are a few words in the electrical engineering lexicon that will perk any hardware hacker’s ears. The first of course is “Nixie tubes” with their warm cold war era ambiance and nostalgia inducing ...

NEW YORK-- The dark green relay boxes used to store mail for the U.S. Postal Service are getting broken into more and more. Now, residents and a Queens congresswoman are banding together to stop the ...

You know a mailbox when you see one. (They’re those blue hunks of metal bolted to the sidewalk with the creaky flaps that go reeeeaaaaaallllk when you pull them open.) But what about the dark-green ...

Yesterday, an Untapped Cities reader contacted us asking us what those mysterious green mailboxes are on the streets of New York City. The mailboxes are known as relay boxes in New York City. Luckily ...