Talk:1540 Broadway

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Review: May 8, 2022. (Reviewed version).

A fact from 1540 Broadway appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a Forever 21 store at 1540 Broadway was expected to attract more daily visitors than the Statue of Liberty?

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Requested move 13 August 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved as there was no opposition to the proposal. (closed by non-admin page mover) Brad v 16:24, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bertelsmann Building → 1540 Broadway – New name, source more used name. Triplecaña (talk) 14:21, 13 August 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 ^{talk to me | my contributions} 15:34, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Rlink2 (talk) 01:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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1540 Broadway

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... that the 1540 Broadway skyscraper on New York City's Times Square stood completely empty for two years after it was completed? Source: Light, Larry; Meehan, John (July 2, 1990). "Finance: real estate: the walls keep closing in on New York developers". Bloomberg Businessweek. No. 3167. p. 72; Deutsch, Claudia H. (May 2, 1993). "Waiting for Act 2 Around Times Square". The New York Times
- ALT1: ... that the 1540 Broadway skyscraper on Times Square, empty upon completion, was called "one of the most prominent financial disasters in 1980s real estate speculation"? Source: "Times Square Story". Newsday. November 23, 1993. p. 33.
- ALT2: ... that the builders of 1540 Broadway, a 44-story skyscraper on New York City's Times Square, lost about US$200 million on the project? Source: Kennedy, Shawn G. (April 25, 1994). "New Tenants Around Times Square; Vacancies Drop as Businesses Find Space to Fit Their Needs". The New York Times.
- ALT3: ... that a Forever 21 store at 1540 Broadway was expected to attract more daily visitors than the Statue of Liberty? Source: Schneiderman, R. M. (June 28, 2010). "For Tourists, Statue of Liberty is Nice, but no Forever 21". Wall Street Journal. "But that surge is small compared to the tsunami of shoppers, many of them tourists, pouring into the new Forever 21 megastore, which opened last week in Times Square. As The Journal reported, the store expects to attract 100,000 visitors daily -- far more than the daily average of 14,000 people who visited the Statue of Liberty last July."
- ALT4: ... that the spire of 1540 Broadway, facing the center of New York City's Times Square, led its architect to exclaim "We've pinned the bow tie!"? Source: Adler, Jerry (1993). High Rise: How 1,000 Men and Women Worked Around the Clock for Five Years and Lost $200 Million Building a Skyscraper. New York: HarperCollins. p. 91.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nutty Narrows Bridge
- Comment: More hooks later

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 17:41, 12 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 00:42, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Approved ALT3 ~~pending QPQ~~ the rest are meh, IMO; ALT0 is interesting but I don't find it explicitly enough in the article prose. (Also, the hook citation for ALT3 just barely escaped the paywall :P.) – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 00:42, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@John M Wolfson: Thanks for the review. Personally, I kind of thought that an empty 44-story skyscraper in the middle of Times Square would be interesting, but I suppose not. =D Anyway, I've done a QPQ now. Epicgenius (talk) 13:42, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@John M Wolfson: Sorry to bother you, but if you've approved this hook, then can you change the status in the DYK template to "y" or add {{subst:DYKtick}}? Otherwise it will not show up as approved and will appear in Category:Pending DYK nominations rather than in the list of approved nominations. Thanks again for the review. Epicgenius (talk) 13:28, 15 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]