Barry Margolin
2/3/2012 11:09:00 PM
In article <jghkim$ha1$2@news.albasani.net>,
"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> Professor Bubba wrote:
> >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.
>
> John D. Rockefeller had the clout to do something the rest of us don't.
> It's like Donald Trump being allowed to use the name of one of his
> buildings as its address.
But this is obviously not just the name of the building, like "Chrysler
Building". The number 30 indicates that there's a whole plaza, with
each building getting a number as an address.
In Cambridge, MA, there's a section of town adjacent to MIT called
"Kendall Square", and the buildings there are address 1 Kendall Square,
2 Kendall Square, etc. instead of using the street names in their
addresses.
And getting a street named after yourself doesn't always require much
clout. In my town, at least 80% of the street names are named after
people -- when they were turning farmland into residential developments
in the 19th century, the developers got to choose the street names, and
they often named themselves or their relatives.
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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA