History Main / KnownByThePostalAddress

** In some places, the line between "street address" and "building name" can be blurred. For example, in Montreal, a major downtown complex is called Place Ville Marie. The main tower officially has the address 1, Place Ville Marie, with other buildings in the complex numbered 2, Place Ville Marie, etc. But there's no street called "Place Ville Marie" -- the address refers only to its being part of the complex.

* The office and residence of the British First Lord of the Treasury, 10 Downing Street, is frequently referred to by media and by the government as "Number Ten". Although it's mostly famous as being the office and residence of the British Prime Minister, a PM is not allowed to live there unless they also take the position of First Lord of the Treasury.

* Many newer skyscrapers built in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity are named after their address rather than given a proper name (as opposed to older skyscrapers like "the Chrysler Building", "the Woolworth Building", or "the Empire State Building"). Some examples: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_World_Trade_Center One World Trade Center]] [[note]]Indeed, [[EnforcedTrope enforced]] with the second version of the building, which was originally named "Freedom Tower" to reflect the emphasis on American patriotism in the wake of the original tower's destruction in the 9/11 attacks, but was renamed during construction to match its predecessor.[[/note]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue 432 Park Avenue]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One57 One 57]] (located at 157 West 57th Street), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Vanderbilt One Vanderbilt]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53W53 53W53]] (located at 53 West 53rd Street), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_West_57th_Street 111 West 57th Street]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56_Leonard_Street 56 Leonard Street]], and many others. This trend isn't unique to NYC, but it's most apparent there, given NYC's [[BigApplesauce global cultural influence]] and status as the trope-maker for SkyscraperCity.

** There are a number of cases where streets are used as metonymies for some field of endeavour not because of a single famous building, but because they host or hosted a concentration of buildings in that field; for example, "Wall Street" for American financial markets, "Broadway" for mainstream American theatre, "K Street" for Washington lobbyists, "Madison Avenue" for American advertising, "Whitehall" for the British civil service, or "Fleet Street" for the British press.

** There are a number of cases where streets are used as metonymies for some field of endeavour not because of a single famous building, but because they host or hosted a concentration of buildings in that field; for example, "Wall Street" for American financial markets, "K Street" for Washington lobbyists, "Madison Avenue" for American advertising, "Whitehall" for the British civil service, or "Fleet Street" for the British press.

* The Polish Sejm is often referred to as "Wiejska", after its location on ul. Wiejska 4/6/8 in Warsaw.

** ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': If you're looking to drop by Dr. Stephen Strange's]] residence, that's 177A Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village.

* On various occasions, it is established that Franchise/{{Tintin}} lives in an apartment in Rue de Labrador no. 26 in Brussels. Although there is no Labrador street in Brussels, there is a Newfoundland street that houses the same working-class apartment buildings that make up the fictional Labrador street. Eventually, when the Hergé museum in Louvain-La-Neuve was built, the city fathers decided to call the access road 'Rue du Labrador' just so the museum could have the official address of no. 26.
* Quite a few [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] characters have defined addresses, especially if they operate within New York City.
** The [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Baxter Building]] is located at the corner of 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan -- [[ItMakesSenseInContext unless it's recently been hijacked into space]].
** If you're looking to drop by [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange Stephen's]] residence, that's 177A Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village.
** [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter]] grew up at 20 Ingram Street, in the Forest Hills section of Queens.

** There used to be a restaurant in Montreal called "H4C," which was the ''postal code prefix'' for the increasingly trendy neighbourhood it was in.