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Spider-Man, the friendly, slightly neurotic superhero now slinging toward screens all over, is another neighborhood boy done good.
Before a bite from a genetically altered spider transformed him into an uber-arachnid, Peter Parker lived in Queens in a typical Archie Bunker-style home, with a postage-stamp-size yard and a window looking directly into his neighbor's.
Where, exactly? The comic strip didn't name the street and the movie released Friday doesn't either, but footage was shot on 69th Road in Forest Hills.
As first written in Marvel Comics in 1962, Parker, whose parents are deceased, lives in a two-story, one-family home with his elderly Aunt May and Uncle Ben, next door to dreamy Mary Jane (M.J.) and her loudmouth father.
"We really found streets and locations that mirrored the [comic] book," producer Laura Ziskin said in an interview from her office in Culver City, Calif.
Executives sought a place that had "in a good way, a cookie- cutter feeling," she said. "That's where he's from in the comic book and we wanted to be...