Template:Did you know nominations/New York Life 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) 20:38, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
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New York Life Building
New York Life Building
- ... that the New York Life Building (pictured) is topped by a six-story, 22-karat gold-tile roof? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/realestate/postings-new-york-life-renovates-a-4.1-million-facelift-for-a-150th-birthday.html
- ALT1:... that the old Madison Square Garden was demolished to make way for the New York Life Building (pictured)? Source: NYCL p. 5
- ALT2:
... that the five basements of the New York Life Building include a subway station entrance and a massive storage vault?Source: NPS p. 5 NY Times 1929
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Frieda Nadig
- Comment: I can propose more hooks if necessary. ALT2 is pretty lame in particular.
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 16:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC).
Interesting building history, on fine sourcs, offline source accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed, and no hook is needed because it speaks for itself ;) - I prefer short and sweet original hook. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:20, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
