Untapped Cities

The Pneumatic Tube Mail System in New York City

I’m often asked what my favorite weird/obscure fact about New York City was. Ironically, as the founder of Untapped New York, this question frequently proves difficult because there are just so many ...
Untapped Cities

The Pneumatic Mail Tube Remnants in Old Chelsea Post Office

The inaugural episode of The Untapped New York Podcast was a dive into my favorite subject of all time: New York City’s pneumatic tube mail system. One of the highlights of this exploration was ...
The New York Times

THE PNEUMATIC TUBE MAIL SERV- ICE.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
The Atlantic

That Time People Sent a Cat Through the Mail Using Pneumatic Tubes

Contents fragile! That white thing getting ready to be whisked away in a tube is, indeed, a cat. (Wikimedia Commons) New Yorkers of the Gilded Age knew an exciting technology when they saw one. And, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When a Labyrinth of Pneumatic Tubes Shuttled Mail Beneath the Streets of New York City

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953 Vanessa Armstrong - History Correspondent A pneumatic mail tube at the main Post Office Department branch in ...