Template:Did you know nominations/Riverside Park (Manhattan)

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 04:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Riverside Park (Manhattan)

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• ... that as part of a 1930s project, a railroad in Riverside Park was placed in a tunnel underneath it? Source: NY Times 1936
  • ALT1:... that Riverside Park consists of multiple registers built atop a train tunnel? Source: NPS p. 2 NYCL p. 2
  • ALT2:... that Riverside Park, designed by Central Park's architects, suffered from outdoor sewerage, squatter's shacks, and coal emissions in the late 19th century? Source: Grimm & Schroeder p. 7

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Stearn's botanical names (T)
• Comment: More hooks later

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 16:59, 12 April 2020 (UTC).

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I only reviewed for the hook in ALT2 and didn't considered the other ones interesting. Good to go. KAVEBEAR (talk) 05:49, 16 April 2020 (UTC)