{"id":629735,"date":"2026-10-13T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629735\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:26:08","slug":"spider-man-way-unveiled-in-forest-hills-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/629735\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Spider-Man Way’ Unveiled in Forest Hills, Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saving New York from supervillains apparently improves your chances of getting a street sign. Spider-Man now has one in Forest Hills, where the neighborhood\u2019s most famous fictional resident<\/a> received a hometown honor this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpider-Man Way\u201d was unveiled yesterday, October 12, at Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue, QNS reported<\/a>, with dozens of fans, elected officials and Marvel representatives gathering to celebrate, alongside several young attendees who arrived dressed as the web-slinger. (The location is steps from 20 Ingram Street, which a 1989 comic identified as Peter Parker\u2019s home.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Council Member Lynn Schulman championed the co-naming legislation after Assemblymember Sam Berger advocated for it. The designation was included in a city law enacted July 30<\/a> that names 103 thoroughfares and public places. Specifically, the law honors the intersection of Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue, so Ingram Street keeps its name.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeter Parker isn\u2019t a billionaire living in a tower. He isn\u2019t an alien descending from space. He\u2019s a kid from Queens who has homework, bills to pay, family problems and a thousand reasons to say he can\u2019t help today, and yet, time and time again, he shows up,\u201d Berger said, according to QNS.<\/p>\n

Mark Ditko, nephew of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko, also attended and described his uncle\u2019s efforts to make Parker a regular person from a regular neighborhood. Spider-Man comics editor Nick Lowe emphasized that Forest Hills will always be the character\u2019s home, no matter how far his adventures take him.<\/p>\n

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards also showed some borough pride, comparing Spidey with other cities\u2019 fictional icons.\u00a0\u201cRocky could never lay a glove on Spider-Man,\u201d Richards joked.<\/p>\n

Fans now have another reason to make a Forest Hills pilgrimage, with the new sign offering a photo opportunity at the intersection. Consider it a little civic recognition for a character who\u2019s spent decades helping keep his hometown standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saving New York from supervillains apparently improves your chances of getting a street sign. Spider-Man now has one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[24890,156,409,111,41868,139,69,2111],"class_list":["post-629735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-categories-things-to-do","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-news-city-life","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}