New York resident receives children's letters for Spider-Man – he owns the superhero's real house

A New York resident who shares an address with Spider-Man has revealed that kids send letters to the superhero – and he actually receives them.

Plenty of superheroes have headquarters and homes in real cities, but those addresses and buildings often don't exist in reality. There's no Stark Tower sitting in the middle of New York, for instance.

Spider-Man is a different story, though. The hero actually uses real addresses.

One of them, 20 Ingram Street in Forest Hills, is where he lives with Aunt May in the comics. According to the New York Post, that house belongs to an elderly man named Jack Shi, who wasn't even aware of the connection at first, but started getting a flood of mail addressed to Spider-Man.

Speaking to the outlet, Shi said he gets all kinds of visitors, with fans snapping photos outside his home. He doesn't mind them at all and always says yes when someone wants a picture.

I feel mild responsibility because Spider-Man, this is the American spirit. If I am living here, I should do as Spider-Man.

He's received all sorts of letters from kids, some inviting Spider-Man to birthday parties, others asking him to come over and watch TV.

This is where I wanted to live. It is an exciting place.

The address is even marked on Google Maps as a Spider-Man landmark, so fans don't need to know their Marvel lore to track it down. The front of the house is blurred out on the online map, though.

While Shi seems happy with all the attention, not every owner of a famous address feels the same way.

In Albuquerque, the owners of the house where Walter White lived in Breaking Bad regularly had to tell visitors to leave. They eventually sold the place altogether.