Template:Did you know nominations/Archer Avenue lines

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The result was: promoted by feminist (talk) 10:20, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Archer Avenue lines

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• ... that the Archer Avenue subway took 15 years to finish, was completed at a cost of nearly five times its original budget, and cut back to a fraction of its original length? Source: "New Subway Line Finally Rolling Through Queens". Newsday. December 11, 1988. p. 7
  • ALT1:... that the Archer Avenue subway was intended to provide subway access to residents of southeast Queens, New York City, but was truncated to a fraction of its original length? Source: Shapiro, Hal (August 16, 1972). "A groundbreaking... with an eye on the el". Long Island Press; Newsday 1988
  • ALT2:... that when it opened, the Archer Avenue subway was hailed as a catalyst in the redevelopment of the New York City neighborhood of Jamaica? Source: NY Daily News 1988

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Glory to Hong Kong

Improved to Good Article status by Kew Gardens 613 (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 02:37, 15 September 2019 (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: Hook 3 is good to go. Ergo Sum 15:47, 20 September 2019 (UTC)