Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/440 West 42nd Street


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The result was   merge to MiMA (building). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:12, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

440 West 42nd Street

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I cannot find any evidence of notability or recent stories about this building. Searching the address on any search engine only comes up with blog entries, travel reviews, or unofficial news articles from 2010 or earlier, when the building was under construction (this is probably why the contents of the article is outdated). No one seems to know who or what is occupying this building today and some sources, though not very reliable, say that is an extension of the MiMA (building). There is evidence that this address once housed a theater, but they are so old (from the 1970s and 1980s, implying that something else occupied the address before this building) that is almost impossible to determine if this theater was popular enough to merit an article for this address The Legendary Ranger (talk) 13:35, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 13:52, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
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 *  Keep  - While there needs to be updated information, this building has received some very in-depth coverage. and even recieved coverage in India. --Oakshade (talk) 20:36, 9 July 2012 (UTC) Changed to Merge per Jim.henderson's comments below. --Oakshade (talk) 07:22, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * For me the question is whether this is the same building as MiMA (building). I suspect it was renamed during a hiatus in the project, in which case the answer would be Merge. As it happens I am sitting at my keyboard half a mile from there and can adjust my route to Brooklyn later today to pass down that part of W42St for a bit of Original Reconnassance. Jim.henderson (talk) 19:16, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay there seems to be only one building occupying the south side of 42nd Street between Dyre and 10th Avenues.
 * The entrance just west of the Dyre Avenue corner is labelled as 450 and as MiMa Tower 1.
 * West of there, approximately mid block, an entrance is labelled as 440, contrary to the practice that house numbers increment westward west of 5th Avenue, and also as MiMa Tower 1. Whether there's a 2, I don't know.
 * On 10th Avenue the YOtel entrance has an avenue house number, and on the north side of the western part of the 41st Street the parking garage has an odd number; I'll dig those numbers out of my photos later.
 * So, yes, if there ever was a plan to build a separate 440 W42, it doesn't seem to have happened. Either it merged or it got renamed, and I figure merging is the right way to handle the articles.  Wish we could find a ref for this rather than rely on visual scouting.  Jim.henderson (talk) 03:56, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Hasty job; no retouching. Original sequence was from Dyre Avenue westward along 42 and around the block on 9th and eastward on 43 but the upload process scrambled it. Jim.henderson (talk) 13:16, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge per Jim Henderson. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
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