Template:Did you know nominations/New York World Building
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:28, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
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New York World Building
- ... that the New York World Building was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge? Source: "World Building May Be Razed For Bridge Plan: Approaches to Brooklyn Bridge, Proposed to City Would Doom Landmark World Building Faces Razing for New Bridge Approaches". New York Herald Tribune. November 23, 1952. p. 31.
- ALT1:... that the New York World Building, once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge? Source: NY Herald Tribune 1952; Skyscraper Museum
- ALT2:... that the New York World Building's architect bet that the building would be erected within its $1 million budget, though it ended up costing twice that? Source: Landau, Sarah; Condit, Carl W. (1996). Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865–1913. Yale University Press. p. 197
- ALT3:... that during a heat wave in 1900, a "noted rainmaker" was hired to detonate two dozen "rain bombs" from the New York World Building's dome? Source: NY Evening World 1900
- ALT4:... that Joseph Pulitzer developed the New York World Building on the site of a hotel that he had been thrown out of during the American Civil War? Source: Burrows, Edwin G. & Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1051.
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC).
Very impressive work. This article is now quite beautiful. Article meets length and newness requirements with a > 5x expansion on 9/28. The article is well written and sourced. Earwig detects no copyvio/plagiarism problems. The hooks are all short enough and interesting, though I find alts 1, 3 and 4 to be the better ones. Some sources for the hook facts are off-line and accepted in good faith. QPQ complete. Cbl62 (talk) 16:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
