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A Vanity Address occurs when a building does not have a proper street address. There are two types of vanity addresses, many of which are in New York City.


 * The first kind is when a building has a location address in lieu of a street address. For example, Times Square is an area not really a physical address, but there are now a range of building with Times Square addresses including 3, Times Square (X street), 11 Times Square (x street) and 20 Times Square (701 7th Ave).
 * The second kind is when the street address does not correspond to the street that the building is on. For example, 1325 Avenue of the Americas is near Seventh Avenue, with entrances on 53rd and 54th Streets (rather than on Sixth Avenue itself).

History
Some of the earliest vanity addresses include Rockefeller Center. Other addresses include Hudson Yards and Times Square.

Criticisms
Some view the allocation of vanity addresses as a money-making exercise by towns and cities which passes on the burden of servicing the new address to the postal and taxi services which have to find these addresses citation needed. In most cases utility companies (electricity, phone, cable, etc.) continue to use the street addresses rather than the vanity addresses citation needed.

Famous Vanity Addresses

 * 15 Penn Plaza NYC
 * Rockafeller Center NYC
 * Lincoln Center NYC
 * United Nations Plaza NYC
 * World Trade Center NYC
 * Pennsylvania Plaza NYC