Goldman’s headquarters-to-be will not be on Marginal Street.

The bank’s application for a “vanity address” (i.e. “1 Times Square”) has been approved, according to Anthony Borelli, director of land use, planning and development, and the man who controls vanity addresses. The bank’s new headquarters is technically on a street called Marginal Street, right off the West Side Highway. But instead of, say 20 Marginal Way, Goldman is getting something a bit more respectable sounding.

The most recent application that Borelli approved came from Goldman Sachs, which is building new headquarters … “It’s on Route 9A, which is the West Side Highway, in front of what is technically Marginal Street … The everyday person would never know that Marginal Street exists, because, physically, it’s a highway.” Then he pointed at a couple of other little-known roads called Marginal Street—one near the sewage-treatment plant below Riverbank State Park and one in Inwood, near Sherman Creek. “It’s, like, the technical name for streets with no name,” he said. “But we don’t do street names. That’s the City Council.” It seemed easier to grant Goldman a more dignified address: 200 West Street. (New Yorker)