Peter Parker’s neighborhood now has the street sign to match. The New York City Council has partially renamed the intersection of Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens, as Spider-Man Way, The Beat reports, with local coverage from ABC7 New York.
The ceremony was held Monday, October 12. Council member Lynn Schulman introduced the co-naming after advocacy from state Assembly member Sam Berger. Guests included Mark Ditko, nephew of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, and Nick Lowe, Marvel’s Spider-Man editor.
Why this corner
Spider-Man Way sits near 20 Ingram Street, the address Amazing Spider-Man #316-17 established in 1989 as the home where Aunt May and Uncle Ben raised Peter. Unlike the comics’ building, the real house is a stone Edwardian, and it still draws fan mail from around the world.
Berger told the crowd the character matters because he is local. “Peter Parker isn’t a billionaire living in a tower. He isn’t an alien descending from space. 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, and yet, time and time again, he shows up,” Berger said, as quoted by The Beat.
Marvel’s New York, mapped
The dedication follows earlier New York honors for comics creators, including Yancy Street/Jack Kirby Way at Delancey and Essex. Lowe, a Queens resident, said Marvel was “delighted to see that connection made permanent,” especially as the publisher prepares to move its longtime New York offices to Burbank next year.
Berger also framed the honor as a nod to Jewish comics creators such as Ditko, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in a neighborhood with deep Jewish roots, a point he has made in local interviews around the dedication.
It is a civic footnote next to the year’s biggest Spider-Man comics event, which RCG covered when Amazing Spider-Man #1000 topped 400,000 orders, but for Forest Hills it makes the comics map match the sidewalk.
