Talk:Calvert Vaux Park

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:55, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

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• ... that Calvert Vaux Park, named after the landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the Verrazzano Bridge's construction? Source: NYC Parks
  • ALT1:... that after New York City decided to develop a long-neglected portion of Calvert Vaux Park, nearby residents objected to a planned golf course on the site? Source: NY Times 1997 "'The park just lay there as the garbage settled for 35 years', said the Parks Commissioner, Henry J. Stern." ... "Now, though, the city is finally taking action, but in a way that has aroused the fury of park advocacy groups."
  • ALT2:... that Calvert Vaux Park is located next to a boat graveyard near Coney Island with over two dozen ships? Source: NY Times 2006 "Behind the tall grass and trees of Calvert Vaux Park [...] is a nautical graveyard. Burned and rotting hulks of abandoned vessels jut from the dirty beach into the silted, sluggish water of Coney Island Creek." Side note: The thought of a boat graveyard in Coney Island (i.e. the Coney Island Creek) is pretty interesting to me, though the reviewer may disagree.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda
• Comment: Calvert Vaux Park was formerly named Dreier Offerman Park, according to NYC Parks. Hence, some sources may refer to Dreier Offerman Park.

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:55, 19 October 2019 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: ALT0 really jumped out as interesting and well formatted. ALT1 isn't particularly interesting and ALT2 could use some work, particularly "next to a boat graveyard near". SounderBruce 02:55, 27 October 2019 (UTC)