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Spider-Man's Queens street gets its new name, with a plaque

The address was first printed in The Amazing Spider-Man in nineteen eighty-nine, and the city says the new street name honors that legacy; the mailman is already nervous.

On air: Hank Ledger and Dale Bearman on Wake Up, America
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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAs promised: New York City is renaming the Queens street where Spider-Man's childhood home sits, an address that first appeared in the comics in nineteen eighty-nine.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThirty-seven years that sidewalk has had tourists on it, and the reward is a new sign. The neighbors wanted a speed bump.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCBS says the city is calling it an honor for the legacy of Peter Parker, who is, for the record, a fictional teenager.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA teenager with a mortgage. In Queens.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMail will still arrive.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLate, and with a web on it.

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