Template:Did you know nominations/Rockefeller Center


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:10, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Rockefeller Center

 * ... that New York City's Rockefeller Center (pictured) was constructed only because the Metropolitan Opera backed out of an agreement to build a new opera house in Midtown Manhattan? Source: Krinsky, Carol H. (1978). Rockefeller Center. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19502-404-3, p. 50.
 * ALT1:... that the construction of New York City's Rockefeller Center (pictured) involved 40,000 to 60,000 workers? Source: Okrent, Daniel (2003). Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-142-00177-6, pp. 189-190.
 * ALT2:... that the construction of Rockefeller Center (pictured) was the largest private development project ever undertaken for its time? Source: Roussel, Christine (May 17, 2006). The Art of Rockefeller Center. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-39306-082-9, p. 11.
 * ALT3:... that Rockefeller Center 's iconic ice rink was originally created as a temporary measure during its construction? Source: Okrent 2003, p. 360
 * ALT4:... that Columbia University rented the land under New York City's Rockefeller Center (pictured) to the Rockefeller family for over 50 years? NY Times. "Columbia University has agreed to sell the 11.7 acres of land under Rockefeller Center to the Rockefeller Group for $400 million, the two parties announced yesterday. The Rockefeller family has been renting the land for half a century."
 * Reviewed: Goat Canyon Trestle
 * Comment: For ALT3, the image does not have to be used.

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 14:06, 22 February 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article has achieved GA status recently enough, is long enough and within policy regarding neutrality, sourcing and avoidance of close paraphrasing (note that Earwig detects a 30.1% match that seems based on overlapping titles, addresses and names). All of the hooks are within length, interesting and properly sourced. QPQ has been met and image is free, used in article and show up acceptably. Alansohn (talk) 19:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I added a freely-licensed image for ALT3. Yoninah (talk) 14:34, 3 April 2018 (UTC)