Google deletes imaginary street after company and MBTA fall for teen’s prank

Brendan Libby somewhat expected that his prank could fall apart once he confessed online to duping the MBTA and Google into renaming a bus stop.

To some extent, it did. But not entirely.

Libby, a Brookline High School senior, detailed this week how he jokingly submitted a correction to Google Maps years ago that resulted in a driveway in West Roxbury being renamed after Rabbit Maranville, an early 20th-century baseball player with a particularly eye-catching name.

Libby, 18, said he was shocked to see the MBTA eventually rename a bus stop in the area after “Maranville Street,” apparently unaware that the street’s name on Google Maps was fake.

But after his story drew attention on Reddit and in the press this week, Google quietly withdrew the street’s name from its platform. At least on Google Maps, Maranville Street is no more.

The West Roxbury street wasn’t much to begin with — in essence, a parking area between Atrius Health and the Hancock Village apartments leading to…