NEW YORK - A pair of green mailboxes, a notorious break-in target in Astoria, used to sit on 23rd Avenue. "I'm crossing the street, and all of a sudden, I see the boxes moved, and I just kind of ...

We previously looked into the green relay mailboxes in a Cities 101 article. They’re temporary holding spots for letter carriers whose carts or bags can’t hold everything on their route. A commenter ...

NEW YORK-- The dark green relay boxes used to store mail for the U.S. Postal Service are getting broken into more and more. Now, residents and a Queens congresswoman are banding together to stop the ...

The high-tech method of crime involves picking up the signal from the actual keys, using ‘relay boxes’ to detect it inside the home. Drivers have been warned about it as this type of crime becomes ...

Yesterday, an Untapped Cities reader contacted us asking us what those mysterious green mailboxes are on the streets of New York City. The mailboxes are known as relay boxes in New York City. Luckily ...