{"id":371262,"date":"2026-10-12T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371262\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:08:18","slug":"dozens-of-spidey-fans-celebrate-co-naming-of-forest-hills-street-as-spider-man-way-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/371262\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Spidey fans celebrate co-naming of Forest Hills street as \u2018Spider-Man Way\u2019 \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of Spider-Man<\/a> fans, Queens residents and elected officials gathered in Forest Hills<\/a> Monday morning to celebrate \u201cKid from Queens\u201d by co-naming a portion of Ingram Street as \u201cSpider-Man Way\u201d in honor of the iconic web-slinger\u2019s deep ties to the neighborhood and the borough.<\/p>\n

The co-naming, officially unveiled Oct. 12 at the intersection of Ingram Street and Ascan Avenue, took place just steps away from 20 Ingram St., revealed to be the home of Peter Parker in a comic in 1989.<\/p>\n

Council Member Lynn Schulman, who introduced the co-naming legislation in the City Council following relentless advocacy from Assemblymember Sam Berger, said the co-naming aimed to honor a superhero who has \u201cwoven himself into the fabric\u201d of Forest Hills and Queens.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Shane O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

A large number of elected officials joined Schulman and Berger for Monday\u2019s ceremony, including Council Speaker Julie Menin, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi, state Sen. Leroy Comrie and Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.<\/p>\n

Dozens of young Spider-Man fans, taking advantage of a day off school on Columbus Day, also attended the ceremony, several of whom dressed up as the famous web-slinger to celebrate as their local hero was honored.<\/p>\n

\"TwoTwo young Spider-Man fans came out for Monday\u2019s co-naming ceremony. Photo by Shane O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

\u201cSpider-Man has really changed my life,\u201d said Catalina Kaloferoe, a young Spider-Man fan who will soon move to Forest Hills. \u201cPeter Parker and Spider-Man mean everything, especially to people who have grown up in Queens. It means everything (to see a street co-named after Spider-Man). To see that Spider-Man is finally being recognized as living at 20 Ingram St. It\u2019s crazy to see him up there on a sign after so many years as a comic book character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musa, a resident of Forest Hills who attended the ceremony alongside his friends, said it is \u201cwonderful\u201d to see Spidey memorialized on Ingram Street.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful,\u201d Musa said. \u201cSpider-Man is a cool hero. He always saves the day and stops villains.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Elected officials, meanwhile, touted Spider-Man as a Queens character that has endured for generations, with Berger as a \u201cfitting home\u201d for the famous comic book character.\n<\/p>\n

Berger and several other speakers at the ceremony said it was not Spider-Man\u2019s web-slinging or superpowers that made him so popular across multiple generations, but Peter Parker\u2019s working-class roots and responsibilities.<\/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. \u201cThat\u2019s the neighbor we want to be. That\u2019s the community we want to build, and that\u2019s the legacy we want to pass on to our children.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schulman, meanwhile, said Spider-Man has captured imaginations for decades because he is a reminder that \u201cyou don\u2019t have to come from somewhere superhuman to do extraordinary things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest heroes are right in our backyards here in Queens and\u00a0neighborhoods are full of people who show up for one another, give back to their communities, and make a difference in the lives of those around them,\u201d Schulman said. \u201cToday is another day to celebrate what makes our borough so special.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Richards noted that other cities may be home to popular fictional characters, but said characters like Rocky Balboa in Philadelphia and Sherlock Holmes in London do not boast the same connection to their home city as Spider-Man does with Queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cRocky could never lay a glove on Spider-Man,\u201d Richards said. \u201cThrough all of his crime-fighting and city-saving, he never forgot where he came from\u2026 Before he belonged to Spider-Man fans around the world, Peter Parker belonged to us first in Forest Hills, Queens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Menin, on the other hand, said the ceremony also showcased the importance of facilitating location filming in New York City, stating that the dozens of Spider-Man fans who attended the co-naming were a testament to the joy of seeing the city featured in popular culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not only bringing jobs, it\u2019s bringing joy to our children,\u201d Menin said. \u201cIt\u2019s basically making sure that these characters that come to life are \u00a0being shot\u00a0right here in New York City.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Several Disney and Marvel representatives also spoke of the enduring connection between Peter Parker and Queens, stating that the working-class connection is an integral part of Spider-Man\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

\"MarkMark Ditko (center) and Nick Lowe (right) at Monday\u2019s ceremony. Photo by Shane O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

Mark Ditko, whose uncle Steve co-created Spider-Man alongside Stan Lee, said his uncle went to \u201cgreat lengths\u201d to define Peter Parker as a \u201cregular person from a regular neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow, this teenage kid from Queens became one of the most recognizable fictional characters in modern pop culture,\u201d Ditko said. \u201cMillions of kids and adults have worn that mask.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MarkMark Ditko, nephew of Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko. Photo by Shane O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

Nick Lowe, editor of the Spider-Man comics, noted that Spider-Man may have traveled all across the multiverse in recent adaptations but said Forest Hills \u201cwill always be his home.\u201d Lowe added that Aunt May and Uncle Ben\u2019s roots in the borough make the story of Spider-Man even more relatable, pointing to their role as adoptive parents and hard-working residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more delighted to see that connection made permanent today,\u201d Lowe said. \u201cAs a Queens resident myself, I see Aunt Mays and Uncle Ben\u2019s all over the place.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of Spider-Man fans, Queens residents and elected officials gathered in Forest Hills Monday morning to celebrate \u201cKid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[136886,310,3945,3439,877,136887,10774,2431,9,24,63,122,124,123,28974,83167,136888,113334],"class_list":["post-371262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-20-ingram-st","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-donovan-richards","tag-forest-hills","tag-grace-meng","tag-ingram-street","tag-lynn-schulman","tag-marvel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sam-berger","tag-spider-man","tag-spider-man-forest-hills","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}