Template:Did you know nominations/History of the Second Avenue Subway


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:32, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

History of the Second Avenue Subway

 * ... that although New York City's Second Avenue Subway was originally planned in 1920, the first stations did not open for another 97 years?  Source: The New Yorker (February 13, 2017). "In 1920, a city engineer named Daniel L. Turner proposed a citywide rail expansion, which came to include a six-track subway under Second Avenue from the Bronx to lower Manhattan. [...] the début of the Second Avenue subway, which opened to great fanfare at noon on New Year’s Day—ninety-seven years after it was first conceived."
 * ALT1:... that during the 1970s, three short segments of New York City's Second Avenue Subway were built and later abandoned? Source: [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/19/nyregion/tunnel-waiting-two-decades-for-train-shafts-for-second-avenue-subway-are.html NY Times (1994). "The Second Avenue subway died for the first time a generation ago, when work on the first three sections of the subway tunnel, a total of about a mile of the planned 14-mile route, was halted in 1975 because of the city's fiscal crisis."
 * ALT2:... that after attempts to construct New York City's Second Avenue Subway failed in the 1970s, the abandoned tunnels were maintained in case construction ever restarted? Source: NY Times (1994). "The Transit Authority spends about $20,000 a year to keep the tunnel dry and safe from vandals, both to protect its investment and, not incidentally, to keep the street above from collapsing."
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Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk) and Kew Gardens 613 (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 16:09, 2 April 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is new enough and long enough, hooks are interesting and sourced in the article. Favor first hook, as it's the most interesting in my opinion. Good to go. Jackdude 101  talk cont 01:08, 7 April 2018 (UTC)