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Postal Services Friday and Sunday editions DIRECTORY
The city’s main General Post of The New York Times and in
Office (see p131) is open till 10pm weekly magazines such as Time Useful Numbers
from Monday to Friday, till 9pm Out New York (free on Wednes-
on Saturdays, and till 7pm on days), New York, and The New Directory Enquiries
Sundays. Stamps can be bought Yorker. The Village Voice, a free Tel 411.
here, from branch offices, and from weekly newspaper, also has ∑ superpages.com
some drugstores and news stands. entertain ment listings, geared ∑ yellowpages.com
As well as at post offices, letters can largely to a younger audience.
be mailed at your hotel’s concierge The free weekly Where New Cell Phones
desk (which usually sells stamps York Magazine, distributed
too); in letter slots in office-building through hotel con cierges, lists AT&T
lobbies; and in street mailboxes. major museums, their opening 31 E 17th St.
These are usually painted blue, hours, and any exhibitions. Tel (212) 614-2522.
or red, white, and blue. The mail is You can buy foreign news- ∑ att.com
not picked up on Sundays. Post papers at Around the World,
offices are shown on the Street Barnes & Noble bookstores, Cellhire
Finder maps (see pp386–419). airports, and some hotels. Tel (877) 244-7242.
All letters are sent first class. ∑ cellhire.com
The post office also offers Television and Radio
several special-delivery services: Internet
Priority Mail Express service, TV program schedules for each
for next-day delivery; Global day can be found in the local Internet Garage
Express Guaranteed, which dailies. The Daily News on 218 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn.
delivers overseas in one to three Sunday has a useful pull-out Tel (718) 486-0059.
business days; and Priority Mail section of the next week’s
Express International, with programs. The choice of TV New York Public Library
delivery in three to five days. stations in New York is vast. 5th Avenue and 42nd Street.
Private courier services such Major networks include CBS on Map 8 F1. Tel (212) 939-0653.
as FedEx, UPS, or DHL can be channel 2, NBC on channel 4,
arranged through hotels. Online ABC on channel 7, and WNYW Postal Services
services are available. (Fox) on channel 5. PBS offers
cultural and edu cational fare DHL
on channel 13. Cable TV offers
Newspapers everything from the Arts & Tel (800) 782-7892.
and Magazines ∑ dhl.com
Entertainment Network to
New York has two major sports on ESPN and public- FedEx
daily newspapers, The New access programs. Tel (800) 225-5345.
York Times and The Wall Street AM radio stations include
Journal, and two colorful WCBS News (880AM), WINS ∑ fedex.com
tabloids, The Daily News and News (1010AM), and WFAN General Post Office
the New York Post. Two free Sports (660AM). Some FM 421 8th Ave. Map 8 D2.
morning tabloids are also stations are: WWFS – contem- Tel (800) ASK-USPS or
available, AM New York and porary (102.7FM); WBGO – jazz
Metro. Both are useful for local (88.3FM); and WQXR – classical (800) 222-1811.
events and a brief run down (105.9FM). It is possible to get Priority and Express Mail:
of the news. The best entertain- BBC World Service programs Tel (800) 463-3339.
ment listings are found in the on WNYC (93.9FM or 820AM). ∑ usps.com
UPS
Tel (800) 742-5877.
∑ ups.com
Newspapers and
Magazines
Around the World
148 W 37th St.
Map 8 E2. Tel (212) 695-2534.
Barnes & Noble
33 E 17th St. Map 9 A5.
Tel (212) 253-0810.
Express Mail Priority Mail Standard Mail

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