U.S. Postal Service workers used to be able to afford Manhattan’s Upper East Side. When a young a Lee Harvey Oswald moved with his mother Marguerite to New York City in 1952, they lived for a time with Marguerite’s postman son, Lee Harvey’s half-brother, on East 92nd Street.
The oddity of a postman living where doctors, investment bankers and lawyers live now speaks to the so-called “affordability problem” that Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani ran on, but it more optimistically indicates the source of New York City’s lack of affordability: an enormous influx of talented people in the 73 years since Oswald was briefly a resident.
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