Some Time Ago,

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.