Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Morningside Park (Manhattan)/archive1

TFA blurb
Morningside Park is a 30 acre public park in Upper Manhattan, New York City. The area, originally known as "Muscota" by the Lenape Native Americans, features a cliff that separates Morningside Heights (to the west) from Harlem. The city commissioned Central Park's designers Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to produce a design for the park in 1873. Jacob Wrey Mould was hired to design new plans in 1880, but little progress occurred until Olmsted and Vaux were asked to modify the plans following Mould's death in 1886. The Lafayette and Washington, Carl Schurz Monument, and Seligman Fountain sculptures were installed after the park was completed in 1895. Columbia University proposed constructing a gym in the southern end of the park in the early 1960s, but the plan was abandoned after students organized protests against the gym in 1968. The site of the unbuilt Columbia gym was turned into a waterfall and pond in 1990, and an arboretum was added in 1998.

Edits and comments are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 17:08, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Spot checks

 * "By the mid-20th century, Morningside Park was perceived as dangerous" --> no issues
 * "A playground and comfort station was added between 113th and 114th Streets on the east side of Morningside Park in November 1935; another proposed polygonal comfort station was not built, and the 113th–114th Streets comfort station was replaced by 1945" --> not noticing where the proposed but not built one is mentioned on p. 14. Maybe it's there and the fact that I'm trying to reduce my caffeine intake is leading to decreased alertness
 * It was in page 27. I've added a reference to clarify this now. Epicgenius (talk) 23:18, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * "Two years later, the bronze railings on the western and southern borders were replaced with iron picket fences." --> checks out
 * "So common were crimes there that Morningside Heights residents nicknamed it "Muggingside Park"" --> checks out
 * "More than a decade after the Columbia gym plan was canceled, the construction fencing remained on the site" --> checks out
 * "In 2008, a new playground opened, replacing part of the play area between 116th and 119th Streets" --> Source doesn't seem to mention 116th or 119th streets
 * I have fixed it; page 21 states that it replaced the 116th-119th Street playground. I found another source that mentions 116th Street for the new playground, so I have added that. Epicgenius (talk) 23:18, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * "By the 1910s, vandalism, erosion, and crowds had caused damage to many of the plantings already." - wrong page number, actually p. 20
 * Fixed. Epicgenius (talk) 23:18, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
 * "Morningside Park is owned, operated, and managed by NYC Parks" --> checks out
 * "In 1913, the Carl Schurz Memorial by Karl Bitter and Henry Bacon was placed in the park, followed the next year by Edgar Walter's Seligman (Bear and Faun) Fountain" --> checks out
 * "Though Munckwitz quit the DPP in mid-1885, he continued working with the project as a consultant." --> checks out
 * "Five days after the plan was presented, the DPP approved it "in principle"" --> checks out

Familiar with the nominator, and they have excellent sourcing work, so I don't have concerns here. Would like to see replies to the couple quibbles above, though. Hog Farm Talk 04:57, 25 April 2021 (UTC)