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    "articleBody": "Peter Parker’s block now has a sign to match his comics. On Monday, October 12, dozens of fans, several of them children in Spider-Man suits on the Columbus Day school holiday, watched officials unveil “Spider-Man Way” at the corner of Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens, a few steps from 20 Ingram Street, the address a 1989 comic gave as Parker’s home. “Peter Parker isn’t a billionaire living in a tower. He isn’t an alien descending from space,” Assemblymember Sam Berger told the crowd. “He’s a kid from Queens who has homework, bills to pay, family problems and a thousand reasons to say he can’t help today.” Berger pushed for the sign, and Council Member Lynn Schulman, whose district covers the neighborhood, took the request to the City Council. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards took a swipe at a fictional rival from another city: “Rocky could never lay a glove on Spider-Man.” Council Speaker Julie Menin, Rep. Grace Meng and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz also attended, along with Marvel representatives. How a comic-book address became law Spider-Man Way did not get its own vote. It is one line in Local Law 125 of 2026, an omnibus bill that co-names 103 streets, corners and public places, each at the request of the council member who represents it. The Council approved the package on June 30. The mayor returned it unsigned, and it took effect on July 30. Section 86 designates the Queens intersection and lists its present name as “None,” because this is a co-naming: Ingram Street keeps its name and gains a second sign. Put another way, the sign the fans cheered is one of 103 in that law, under 1% of the package. The timing has some logic. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy #15, on sale June 5, 1962, and placed Parker in Forest Hills, where Aunt May ran a modest two-story house in the comics. The street number came much later. By our count the character is 64 years old this year, and his address has been in print for 37. The real house at 20 Ingram Street has long had a second life as a fan stop. Its residents have received letters from children addressed to the hero, and its current owner, Jack Shi, welcomes visitors. Nick Lowe, the editor of the Spider-Man comics, put it simply: “Seeing all these kids running around here, it’s magical that this character created in 1962 still means something today.” Mark Ditko, nephew of the co-creator, added: “Millions of kids and adults have worn that mask.” Other fictional addresses that got real signs New York has done this before. To mark the 50th anniversary of Sesame Street, the city permanently renamed the corner of Broadway and West 63rd Street after the show’s fictional block on May 1, 2019, with Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiling the sign beside the show’s characters. The site was picked because it sits near Sesame Workshop, the show’s producer, rather than at any address seen on screen. London’s version took more than a century to settle. When Arthur Conan Doyle put Sherlock Holmes at 221B Baker Street in A Study in Scarlet in 1887, the street’s numbers did not reach 221. After Baker Street was extended, the number fell to Abbey House, a building society headquarters opened in 1932 that soon fielded up to 30 letters a month for Holmes and appointed a secretary to answer them. A museum was given the 221B number on March 27, 1990, sparking a numbering dispute that ran about 15 years. Forest Hills’ choice is simpler than either. The comic-book address and the real one already match, so the sign sits where readers were always told to look. It is also the neighborhood’s second pop-culture co-naming in under a decade, after Ramones Way honored the hometown punk band in 2017. The entry itself is short. Section 86 of the law reads, in its table row: “Spider-Man Way | None | At the intersection of Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue.” Further reading NYC Council: Int 0956-2026, naming of 103 thoroughfares and public places Wikipedia: Forest Hills, Queens Wikipedia: Peter Parker Wikipedia: 221B Baker Street Image: Complicated, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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