However, they look so dark and dingy now it is really a shame...there obviously has never been any money to clean or restore them and from the way the Postal Service is going, probably never will be..
Well, it is hardly the Sistine Chapel ceiling or something but it is a great display of classic American WPA Art...
Oh yes, it seems that to compensate for hopelessly darkened murals, this Post Office has a newer painting of Madison Square area ( not geographically accurate but fun)....it does not make up for the neglect of the old murals but is OK.
Manhattan suffers from a surfeit of all sorts of historic riches and some of them just go by the wayside...too bad but you cannot save everything I guess.
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