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Post Is Terrified Of Ghostly FedEx Center In Bronx Warzone
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 24, 2010
Modified Dec 24, 2010
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Are you wondering what happened to that desperately-needed package of hygiene products your mom promised she sent you weeks ago? Well, if you live in a building in Manhattan without a doorman or neighbor to sign for your package, it's probably stuck in the Bronx at a massive FedEx storing facility. But that's not in just any old corner of the Bronx: it's in the Fallujah section of the borough.
At least that's what the Post would have you believe. The center, at 670 E. 132 St. in Port Morris, is located in the 40th Precinct, which has seen a minor spike in crime this year, with robberies up 13 percent compared with 2009. But the way the Post describes it, you'll be taking your life into your hands to try to venture there to retrieve your Christmas socks, and that's if you can even find it. If you take the subway, forget it: you'll have to face a "harrowing" 15 minute walk, at the end of an "unnamed access road that doesn't appear on Google Maps," if it even ever existed at all! Think driving there will be easier? Only if you enjoy "dark, derelict industrial parks populated by drug pushers and prostitutes hassling and harassing" you.
Maybe FedEx doesn't want you to find them; after all, they don't even post directions to the service center on their website. Or maybe there's some nefarious conspiracy afoot..."It's not like we're trying to hide it. If someone wanted to know, they could call our customer-service line. The operator will have a screen with the directions," FedEx spokeswoman Sally Davenport said. But that's exactly what a spooky ghost would want you to believe.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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