Talk:4 Park Avenue

Spotchecks
, I found one issue in doing follow up spotchecks after the GA: -- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:49, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * FN 11 cites "Even before the renumbering, the Vanderbilt Hotel had marketed itself as being at "East 34th Street and Park Avenue" despite technically being on Fourth Avenue." The sentence before says "The segment from 32nd to 34th Streets, outside the current building, was renamed Park Avenue in 1923, at which time the building gained its current address of 4 Park Avenue." FN 11 seems to say that the renaming was in 1924 ("the Park Avenue name...has been in use for the last year" and a reference to "last year's action" of renaming) but also refers to a change back from "Park Avenue" to "Fourth Avenue".  The vote is "subject to the Mayor's approval" -- I guess if the Mayor did not approve it then it never happened, so that would be OK.
 * Thanks for following up Mike Christie. It seems that 1924 is indeed the correct date (December 1, 1924, to be precise). I've fixed it now with a source. – Epicgenius (talk) 13:32, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * That does address it, but don't we also need to do something about the statement in the new source that the name change was "declared illegal" and the headline that the judge "Orders Former Status"? With the comment in FN 11 that there was a vote to reverse it, and no source saying whether the mayor approved that vote, it's not clear whether the timeline given in the article for the name change is fully accurate. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 13:42, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * The situation is explained in more detail in Park Avenue. Basically, the Board of Aldermen reversed the vote, but the mayor vetoed this reversal. Eventually, the New York Court of Appeals, the highest-level court in New York state, voted to uphold the Park Avenue name in 1928 (after it had already been changed back in 1927 by a ruling from the New York Supreme Court). The controversy didn't really subside until 1930, but it did not matter much anyway, as the building was most often known as the Vanderbilt Hotel during this time. It wasn't until the 1960s that the "4 Park Avenue"/"6 Park Avenue" names came into wide usage. – Epicgenius (talk) 13:59, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Interesting; thanks for the explanation. Looks like the article is fine now; thanks. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:49, 7 October 2022 (UTC)