we watched a film called,
Being
John Malkovich, the main character takes a job as a file clerk
for the off-kilter LesterCorp, located on the five-foot tall 7½ floor of a
Manhattan office building, the reason for the floor being called 7½ is
that being a half floor all cost such as rents are halved, so what is the story
behind 6½ Avenue, the city's official name, that is a north-south
pedestrian passageway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running from West
57th to West 51st Streets between Sixth and Seventh Avenues?
it is currently
the only street with a fractioned number in New York City, 6 1/2 Avenue was
given its official signposts in July 2012 by the Department of
Transportation, the secret street was already well known to midtown workers who
had long used the public spaces between 57th and 51st to cut through the city,
avoiding having to walk around to 6th or 7th Avenue, the thoroughfare is part
of the over 500 areas in the city that are known as Privately Owned Public
Spaces, these POPs originated in the 1960s when the city gave property
developers incentives for creating public spaces as part of their new
buildings, these privately owned public spaces usually took the shape of
plazas, atrium's and walk through arcades, so now I know.
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