Talk:Greenwich Savings Bank Building

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Review: July 6, 2021. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Greenwich Savings Bank Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Greenwich Savings Bank Building.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Desertarun (talk) 13:07, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Greenwich Savings Bank Building

... that the Greenwich Savings Bank Building in New York City has its shortest facade (pictured) on Sixth Avenue, the same street where several of the bank's previous headquarters were located? Source: "Greenwich Savings Bank Building" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. March 3, 1992. p. 2; "The Greenwich Savings Bank". Architecture. 50. August 1924. p. 272.
- ALT1:... that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building (pictured), it turned the large banking hall into an appliance showroom, only to convert it to an event space shortly afterward? Source: Hughes, C. J. (February 6, 2005). "From the Outside, They Still Look Like Banks". The New York Times. Sadly there are no free pictures of the interior.
- ALT2:... that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building (pictured), it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners? Source: Same as ALT1

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marie-Jeanne
Comment: I will come up with more hooks later

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 19:20, 7 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

This article is new enough and long enough. The image is suitably licensed, the hook facts are cited inline and any of the hooks could be used, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:24, 17 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]