Re: WKTQ (was tv on radio)

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

What happened to the 02146 zip code?

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:59 AM
Subject: RE: WKTQ (was tv on radio)


> On 24 Jan 2002 at 12:39, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
>
> > I doubt that a Brighton property has a Brookline Zip Code. Zip Codes (to
> > the best of my knowledge) do NOT cross town/city lines if both towns or
> > cities have their own zip codes. I strongly believe that any address
> > having an 02146 zip code IS actually in Brookline.
>
> The municipal boundary runs somewhere between Commonwealth Avenue and
> Beacon Street.  The postal boundary is Commonwealth Avenue.  I actually
> first noticed that back in the 1950s, before zip codes, when my
> grandparents lived on Engelwood Avenue in Brighton, but their postal
> address was Brookline.  That area still is served by the Brookline post
> office.  I suggest you check out the Post Office Website and see for
> yourself.  There's also a small area of Brookline, down by B.U., that has
> a Boston Zip code.  That can be verified on the Zip Code map on the Town
> of Brookline Website, http://www.townofbrooklinemass.com .
>
> And, by the way, no address has an 02146 zip code any more.  Brookline
> zip codes are now 02445 and 02446.  Some parts of South Brookline are
> Chestnut Hill 02467, and PO boxes in the Brookline Village post office
> are 02447 (Formerly 02147).  This change is several years old.
>
>
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