Professor Bubba
2/3/2012 9:14:00 PM
In article <jgh7ni$ler$2@news.albasani.net>, Adam H. Kerman
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Professor Bubba wrote:
> >The GE Building, OTOH, is at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, which is a real
> >street address and has been since 1933. The plaza didn't exist before
> >that. (They created Rockefeller Plaza by cutting through the middles
> >of 48th through 51st Sts. between Fifth and Sixth Aves.)
>
> The plaza is a real place but it's not a dedicated street.
Okay, I don't get the distinction. I know there are vanity addresses.
For instance, in the '70s Citibank wanted the local (Manhattan)
community board to approve a name change for its headquarters block, to
Citibank Plaza, but the board refused.
But Rockefeller Plaza was created when Rockefeller Center was laid out.
There's no alternative address, such as 48 E. 49th St. You even used
to be able to drive through it (unless the tree was up, heh).