The New Yorker covers the story of vanity addresses in New York City, where for $5500 a building can apply to the municipality to be assigned a "vanity address," one which does not correlate to the building's physical location but sounds nice. For example, the Bank of America Tower, is located at Sixth Avenue at Forty-second Street but has a vanity address of 1 Bryant Park. Follow the link for more about this interesting geographic phenomenon.
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Here in Washington, D.C., office buildings that face mostly on another side street off of Pennsylvania Avenue, will nevertheless go by an address like 1900 or 2000 Penn. Ave., for the cachet of being near the famous “White House.”