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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) 16:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

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90 West Street

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90 West Street
90 West Street
  • ... that 90 West Street (pictured), damaged by falling steel in the September 11 attacks, may have survived because of its use of terracotta? Source: NY Times 2001
    • ALT1:... that 90 West Street (pictured) was among the first skyscrapers to consistently use neo-Gothic-style decoration? Source: Irish, Sharon (April 1989). "A 'Machine That Makes the Land Pay': The West Street Building in New York". Technology and Culture. 30 (2): 395-396.
    • ALT2:... that 90 West Street (pictured), built on the shore of the Hudson River, survived the September 11 attacks but is no longer located along the waterfront? Source: NPS p. 12
    • ALT3:... that 90 West Street (pictured) was intended as "a machine that makes the land pay"? Source: NYCL p. 4

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 05:05, 8 March 2020 (UTC).

  • Article is newly 5x expanded and definitely long enough. No obvious neutrality issues and no copyvio per Earwig. All statements in the article have inline citations, and the sources used appear reliable. QPQ is done. The image is correctly licensed. The hooks are short enough, neutral, and the sources check out (offline hook in ALT1 accepted in good faith). Happy to approve this for DYK. What's your preferred hook User:Epicgenius? I'm inclined to say the 9/11 terracotta hook would be the most interesting/eye-catching (a more gruesome alt hook would the human remains not recovered until 2003). All in all a very comprehensive article on quite an interesting building, and looks pretty close to GA status. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 08:38, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
If the 9/11 hook did run, File:90 West Street Building.jpg would be a very striking image to go with the blurb. Ivar the Boneful (talk) 08:41, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
90 West Street prior to 9/11
90 West Street prior to 9/11
@Ivar the Boneful: Thanks for the review. I don't have any particular preferences for the proposed hooks. Here is another one, with the proposed image of the Twin Towers:
  • ALT3 ... that after 90 West Street (pictured) was damaged in the September 11 attacks, several victims' remains landed on a building scaffolding and were not retrieved until 2003? epicgenius (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
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