Letters on display at a small museum in Brooklyn were sent to the same address in Queens as where the comic book hero lived.
Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at letters to Spider-Man that were sent to a real address in Queens. They’ve now been donated to a museum. We’ll also find out about Mayor Eric Adams’s decision to lift the vaccine mandate for city employees.
They are letters to someone who — sorry to break this to you — was not real. This sets them apart from famous letters to real people, like the one from an 11-year-old girl that motivated Abraham Lincoln to grow a beard.
These letters were written to the comic-book superhero Spider-Man and sent to his alter ego’s real address in Forest Hills, Queens, decades ago. Now — without a thwip! or a thwak! or a whoonk! — they are on display at the City Reliquary, a tiny storefront museum in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
“Some of them are more like letters to Santa, asking for Spider-Man stuff,” said Pamela Parker, who grew up in the house at 20 Ingram Street. Yes, the family that lived there from 1974 to 2007 had the same surname as the Spider-Man guy in the comic books, Peter Parker. The real-life Parkers saved the letters.
One 3-old correspondent, who probably had help, considering the perfect spelling and penmanship, reported that she often dressed “as you to kill all the badies.” She wanted to know if Spider-Man planned to visit Europe.
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