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At present, residents seeking to mail letters and purchase retail materials use a handicapped-accessible temporary trailer in the Foodtown Shopping Center next to where the original post office once was, at 51 Chestnut St. The post office relocated to the trailer following the expiration of its 12-year lease in 2013. Early last month, U.S. Postal Service real estate specialist Joseph Mulvey revealed there were four possible sites for a new post office.
In a letter sent to Cold Spring Mayor Ralph Falloon, dated Feb. 2, Mulvey mentioned the sites, which include the VFW building at 34 Kemble Ave., 159 Main St., an expansion of the present site and a new building proposed at the corner of Route 9D and Paulding Avenue.
“This has been going on for so long,” said Scuccimarra. “Time and time again I have requested updates and information as to where the new post office might be located, and I have yet to hear back from any of the postal authorities. This is ridiculous.”
Odell noted Scuccimarra’s frustration and expressed support for the District 1 legislator. “I think our Cold Spring residents have been wonderfully patient during this whole long process,” said Odell. “Historically, the residents in western Putnam have been undeserved, and we are moving forward in trying to alleviate that by planning to have several county government satellite offices located in the new Butterfield complex. Legislator Scuccimarra has been a champion for that project as well as for the village location of a new post office,” she said.
The law states that presentation of plans by a postal official are to be made at a public hearing, advertisements soliciting for a new site are to be made, notices soliciting written public comments are to be available in the postal lobby and announcements are to be made to the media.
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