Talk:Essex Market

A fact from Essex Market appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 April 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia's "war on pushcarts"?

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Did you know nomination

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:50, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Essex Market once featured 475 vendors, most of whom had operated pushcarts on the street before the market's opening? Source: Curbed 2018
- ALT1:... that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia's "war on pushcarts"? Source: NY Times 1938
- ALT2:... that Essex Market was developed on land owned by the New York City Board of Transportation? Source: NY Times 1936

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1813–14 Malta plague epidemic
Comment: There was also a page at Essex Street Market which was redirected several years ago. This new page is more than five times the size of the old redirect.

Created by Treetopz (talk) and Epicgenius (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 21:53, 31 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

New enough (Mar. 28/29), Long enough (history section alone is above 1,500 char.), neutral, cites sources, no apparent copyvio issues (passes Earwig and eye tests, AGF on subscription-locked sources), hooks are short enough, and I can verify the primary and Alt1 through the sources I can access. Alt1 is the most interesting hook, the primary is also fine, but I would say Alt2 is not interesting enough. No image. Ready to go once QPQ done. Please ping me when it's ready. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 08:18, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: Thanks for the review. I have added a QPQ. (Thanks for trying to save me a click, though.) epicgenius (talk) 11:54, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to go. AGF tick b/c of paywalled sources. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:54, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]