The real-life address receives letters meant for Spider-Man
Jack Shi says children have been sending Spider-Man fan mail to his home at 20 Ingram St in Forest Hills, Queens. The 64-year-old homeowner told the New York Post that the four-bedroom, four-bathroom brick house shares an address with one of Aunt May’s homes in Marvel comics.
Shi said he bought the property around three years before the interview without knowing about its fictional association. Comics readers knew better, naturally, and the house has become informally known among fans as ‘Spider-Man’s house’.
Some of the letters are impressively direct. One child from South Dakota asked Spider-Man how he manages feats such as saving the world, while another invited Spider-Man and Deadpool over to watch television. Postal logistics are apparently no match for the optimism of a young Marvel fan.
Shi has embraced the attention with considerable grace. He told the newspaper that he feels a responsibility connected to Spider-Man’s values and allows visitors to take photographs when they ask.
Brand New Day has put Spider-Man back at blockbuster scale
The homeowner’s story has emerged during the enormous theatrical run of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which premiered on 31 July 2026. The timing places a small piece of Queens comics geography alongside a much larger wave of attention around Tom Holland’s return as Peter Parker.
The BBC reported that the film earned $927 million worldwide during its opening weekend, including $360 million in North America. Those figures gave it the second-biggest global opening weekend reported and the biggest North American opening weekend.
The box-office performance helps explain why even the wonderfully mundane parts of Spider-Man lore are enjoying fresh attention. A fictional address becoming real fan geography is exactly the sort of thing this character inspires: Peter Parker may fight supervillains, but he also needs somewhere for Aunt May to receive the post.
The fan landmark remains somebody’s home
20 Ingram St is a private residence whose Spider-Man identity comes from its association with the comics and the fans who recognise it. It is not presented as a Marvel attraction, and Shi is the person deciding whether visitors may photograph the property.
His welcoming response is what keeps the story charming. Fans get a tangible connection to Peter Parker’s New York, children get to address letters to their hero, and the homeowner appears willing to play along without pretending that Spider-Man is waiting upstairs.
Anyone visiting still needs to treat the address as a home rather than a theme-park stop. Shi’s patience may be heroic, but even friendly neighbourhood fandom works best when it remembers the neighbours.
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