A UPS store is closing after operating for decades in the neighborhood, and a letter posted at the front of the store tells the whole story.
The outpost at 119 West 72nd Street (between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues) — open at this location “for about 35 years,” according to the letter — will have its final day of operation on Monday, April 6. The owner, Otis Davis, posted a six-page letter to customers explaining the circumstances in detail, pointing the finger at two parties: his corporate landlord and UPS’s own home office.
“With sheer sadness, I regret to inform you that I have to close the store,” Davis wrote, citing the landlord’s demand for above-market rent and what he described as the UPS Store Home Office’s “sheer incompetence.”…