Cliffside Park Sites

New Deal funds helped to construct a new post office for Cliffside Park in 1935. However, the building is no longer extant; postal operations moved to a new facility during the late 1990s and the building was demolished in the 2000s. The location of the old post office's “Rural Delivery,” a 1938 plaster relief by Bruno Neri is presently unknown to Living New Deal.

The former Cliffside Park, New Jersey post office contained a 1938 Section of Fine Arts relief entitled “Rural Delivery” by Bruno Neri, then of Perth Amboy. The present status and location of the relief is unknown to Living New Deal. Bruno Neri was issued the $710 contract to create the relief on November 25, 1936; the contract was for: "Preliminary design, full size cartoon, labor, materials, scaffolding, etc., necessary for the designing, and finishing of a full size relief and its installation in the Post Office building at Cliffside Park, N.J." Final payment for the completed work was approved May 17,...