Talk:Park Avenue Viaduct

Park Avenue Viaduct has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: July 15, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Park Avenue Viaduct appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured), designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Park Avenue Viaduct/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: ArnabSaha (talk · contribs) 10:35, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

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Pass or Fail: (2nd opinion by Lee Vilenski)

I will go for a 2nd opinion to avoid any mistakes, because I am still learning.

Comments WP:CITEKILL in Expansion section. No more issues in the article. Congrats.

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Park Avenue Viaduct facing Grand Central Terminal

... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured), designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening? Source: NY Times 1928
- ALT1:... that New York City's congested Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured) was expanded as part of an agreement with the New York Central Railroad, which constructed its headquarters above the viaduct? Source: NY Times 1928
- ALT2:... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured) turned Park Avenue "from an inconvenient local street to the most modern highway in New York"? Source: NY Times 1989