Due to the iconic children’s educational show’s upcoming 50th
Anniversary, did NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio just named a real street after Sesame
Street?
By: Ringo Bones
In honor of the show’s 50th Anniversary, New York
City made “Sesame Street” a real intersection – as in West 63rd
Street and Broadway - in the Big Apple, permanently. Joined by Big Bird, Elmo, Bert, Ernie and the
others, Mayor Bill de Blasio changed the name of the Manhattan intersection at
a ceremony held back in Wednesday, May 1, 2019. The mayor also declared that
May 1, 2019 is Sesame Street Day.
The show has been headquartered in New York City since 1969
and has always been based between West 63rd and West 64th
Streets. While an intersection was temporarily renamed 10 years ago, this time
it’s for good. Mayor de Blasio also praised Sesame Street for: “Fifty years of
extraordinary programming, 50 years of making people’s lives better, 50 years of
helping children believe in themselves”. Very nice gesture by Mayor Bill de
Blasio for doing this in May considering Sesame Street will be celebrating its broadcast
50th Anniversary this November 2019.
