How to Address a Goldman Sachs Banker

Goldman Sachs is building a new headquarters building which will carry the address 200 West Street. It's on the west side of the street, on the block between Vesey and Murray. But if you plug the address into Google Maps, say, you'll be directed a couple of blocks north, to the east side of the street at the intersection with Harrison. (One block further north still, and you'd be at the back door of Citigroup.) It turns out that "200 West Street" is what's known as a "vanity address", a bit like "4 Times Square". So what was the original address, which Goldman didn't like?

The most recent application that Borelli approved came from Goldman Sachs, which is building new headquarters in Battery Park City, across from the World Trade Center site. “It’s on Route 9A, which is the West Side Highway, in front of what is technically Marginal Street,” he said, turning to a giant map of Manhattan that was mounted above his desk. “The everyday person would never know that Marginal Street exists, because, physically, it’s a highway.”

Wouldn't an address on "Marginal Street" be, like, the best address ever for an investment bank?