Talk:Gowanus Batcave

Naming
Had a hard time determining the best article title for this one. As far as I can tell, the original name was just "Central Power Station" (of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company). However, throughout most of the sources, the name "Batcave" (sometimes "Bat Cave") is clearly more common. Sometimes just "the Batcave," sometimes "Gowanus Batcave", sometimes "Brooklyn Batcave", etc. It seems to me that since it's kind of a toss-up, that "Gowanus Batcave" is preferable to some parenthetical like "Batcave (Gowanus)" or "Batcave (Brooklyn)". &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 23:27, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Expanding
Thanks for expanding,. I thought about trying to bring this up to GA last year, but it felt like material was missing and I was at the end of my sourcing. Looks like you found some useful stuff via newspapers.com and the landmarks content that hadn't yet happened when I was working on it. I'll see if I can help out more in the next couple days and maybe it'll get to GA yet... &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 05:06, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * , no problem. I mostly took the info from the NYC Landmarks page, and apparently there are some gaps in information. For example, a lot more can be said about design (and I think the design section can be its own section). Hopefully you and I can find even more info. epicgenius (talk) 13:50, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Paper recycling? Paper mill?
Following up on some of the material from the landmark designation report. There's a line we cite that report for saying that, at some point between it being decomissioned and the squatters moving in, it was a paper recycling plant. However, the citation the report gives is a wiki which, in turn, doesn't cite anything. The best I've found corroborating that is Brooklyn Paper saying there was a paper mill there at some point. :/ &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 01:55, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Can't find any trace of this anywhere, so I've gone ahead and removed it. It seems like, as the most recent tenant before the Powerhouse Workshop, it should be pretty easy to verify... &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 04:02, 18 April 2020 (UTC)