The world's first commuter aerial Tramway opened in May
17, 1976 connecting Roosevelt Island to Manhattan East Side.
The local post stamps were issued on September 7, 1985 on the ocassion of the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt Day for the Disabled (the island is named after him). The U.S. Postal Service designed the pictorial cancellation that's applied on the middle stamp.
There were Local post stamps exclusively for the Tramway ( in red and white) of value 50 c were issued on this occasion , as depicted in the cover above. These covers, in grey linen were combination covers of both Local post stamps and US stamps. The local post stamps were designed by Nildo Harper, a noted Philatelist in the area.
People were free to make their own covers using the above envelopes and buying the tramway stamps, then mailing them via the U.S. post office. The unaddressed covers were carried by a postal official in a postal sack on the tramway round trip. The domestic postal rate at the time was 20 cents.
The local post stamps were issued on September 7, 1985 on the ocassion of the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt Day for the Disabled (the island is named after him). The U.S. Postal Service designed the pictorial cancellation that's applied on the middle stamp.
There were Local post stamps exclusively for the Tramway ( in red and white) of value 50 c were issued on this occasion , as depicted in the cover above. These covers, in grey linen were combination covers of both Local post stamps and US stamps. The local post stamps were designed by Nildo Harper, a noted Philatelist in the area.
People were free to make their own covers using the above envelopes and buying the tramway stamps, then mailing them via the U.S. post office. The unaddressed covers were carried by a postal official in a postal sack on the tramway round trip. The domestic postal rate at the time was 20 cents.
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