VIDEO : Sesame Street Becomes Real Intersection In NYC

In honor of Sesame Street's 50th anniversary, the City of New York officially named West 63rd Street and Broadway "Sesame Street" and declared May 1, 2019, "Sesame Street Day. In honor of the show's 50th anniversary, New York City made "Sesame Street" a real intersection in the Big Apple. "Fifty years of extraordinary programming, 50 years of making people's lives better, 50 years of helping children believe in themselves," he said. "There is also something beautiful for us watching when they were young to see our own city, even our own neighborhood portrayed in Sesame Street," de Blasio said.