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Today's map comes from Marvel Comics, by way of the Travel Channel's New York City page. Click on the little circles to learn about all the superhero hotspots-- Doctor Strange's mansion in Greenwich Village, Daredevil's apartment in Hell's Kitchen, the spot in Central Park where the Punisher's family was murdered, and of course, Forest Hills, where Spiderman grew up. The map also mentions that the Thing grew up on the Lower East Side. That makes perfect sense, because we recently learned that he's Jewish. Does that make him the earliest Jewish superhero?
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The Golem, Jake. The Golem.
There are many theories that Superman is Jewish (like his creators, Schuster & Siegel). One involves his name, Kal-El. In Hebrew:
Kal = all. It is pronounced Koal.
El = God. The pronunciation is the same.
In real life, Marvel's first office was an apartment in Tudor City, just steps away from the Baxter Building. Coincidentally, Tudor City was the location for the Green Goblin's apartment in the Spiderman movies.
Anyone interested in this stuff should definitely read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay.
It says Daredevil went to law school at Columbia Law, but the panel they show says he was a freshman studying "pre-law", that is to say, undergraduate studies.
http://travel.discovery.com/destinations/unitedstates/ny/newyork/superheroes/photo/photo_10.html
Why did you have to make this a low-traffic weekend post?
Anyway, there was a pretty good story about gentrification on the Lower East Side featuring The Thing in Marvel Knights Fantastic Four #22