Template:Did you know nominations/140 Broadway

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:07, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

140 Broadway

140 Broadway
140 Broadway
  • ... that the construction of 140 Broadway (pictured) in New York City's Financial District was so quiet that a nearby office worker said his lawnmower made more noise? Source: NY Times 1966
    • ALT1:... that Ada Louise Huxtable called 140 Broadway (pictured) "not only one of [the] buildings I admire most in New York, but that I admire most anywhere"? Source: New York 1960 : architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. p. 180
    • ALT2:... that after 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system was dumped into a tank, its 10,000 workers went without air conditioning for weeks until scuba divers retrieved it? Source: NY Times 1984

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 23:59, 1 May 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: interesting read, i think ALT0 is the hookiest and best to use, if ALT2 was used then it should be changed to "that after parts of 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system were dumped into a tank, 10,000 workers went without air conditioning for weeks until scuba divers retrieved them?" because otherwise it seems the whole system went in the tank Mujinga (talk) 19:37, 9 May 2020 (UTC)