Talk:330 West 42nd Street

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Date	Process	Result
July 2, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
October 2, 2024	Featured article candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 29, 2021.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that James H. McGraw Jr., who selected the blue-green facade panels for 330 West 42nd Street (pictured), was said to be "appalled" at the color of the building?

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(for 330 W. 42nd Street) --DangApricot 03:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

sculpture at top

in the 1980s there was a sculpture at the top a google image search turns up nothing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.245.17.105 (talk) 14:04, 19 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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 Kingsif (talk) 22:14, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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330 West 42nd Street

... that 330 West 42nd Street (pictured) was the only New York City skyscraper displayed in Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson's influential 1932 exhibition of the International Style? Source: Goldberger, Paul (November 3, 1973). "'Green Building' Is a White Elephant". The New York Times
- ALT1:... that James H. McGraw Jr., who selected the blue-green facade panels for 330 West 42nd Street (pictured), was said to be "appalled" at the color of the building? Source: Morgan, James D. (October 1973). "A tale of two towers". Architecture Plus. 1 (9): 47.
- ALT2:... that less than a decade after 330 West 42nd Street (pictured) stood vacant, Jeffrey Gural bragged he could bring the building to full occupancy "three times over in ten minutes"? Source: "A Big Void Left by McGraw Hill Fills Up at Last". The New York Times. September 13, 1981.
- ALT3:... that 330 West 42nd Street (pictured), sometimes nicknamed the "green giant", has a facade designed to blend with the sky regardless of atmospheric conditions? Source: (1) Collins, Thomas; Grunewald, Theodore (February 16, 2021). Request for Evaluation to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; McGraw-Hill Building Lobby (Report). p. 1. (2) Morgan, James D. (October 1973). "A tale of two towers". Architecture Plus. 1 (9): 46-47.
- ALT4:... that 330 West 42nd Street was developed on the site of an unbuilt world's tallest building because Midtown Manhattan was not zoned for commercial and industrial uses? Source: (1) Stern, Robert A. M.; Gilmartin, Patrick; Mellins, Thomas (1987). New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars. New York: Rizzoli. p. 603 (2) Kilham, W. H (1973). Raymond Hood, architect: form through function in the American skyscraper. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co. p. 172.
- ALT5:... that to monitor traffic at the Lincoln Tunnel, policemen and a camera were stationed at the 35th floor of 330 West 42nd Street? Source: (1) Hausner, Edward (February 26, 1957). "Bird's-Eye View of Tunnel Approaches Helps Policemen Expedite Traffic Flow" The New York Times. p. 31. (2) Franklin, Peter D. (November 24, 1960). "TV Camera Facilitates Lincoln Tunnel Traffic". New York Herald Tribune. p. 25.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara Yancy
Comment: I can come up with more hooks.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 04:28, 24 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

I have been in the process of reviewing this...finishing up. SL93 (talk) 21:23, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article has been expanded enough and is long enough. All of the hooks are directly cited. The image is fine. A QPQ has been completed. I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. The promoter can choose the hook. SL93 (talk) 21:32, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius and SL93: I was going to promote this as a non-image hook then thought the infobox image from the article would be nice for an image slot. It might be a bit longer since there's already a NYC skyscraper image hook, but would you mind if the image in the nom was switched out? Kingsif (talk) 18:26, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kingsif I'm fine with that. SL93 (talk) 18:27, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]