Template:Did you know nominations/1 Wall Street Court

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

1 Wall Street Court

1 Wall Street Court
1 Wall Street Court
  • ... that 1 Wall Street Court (pictured) was the headquarters of a shipping line and the world's largest cocoa market before becoming condominiums? Source: NYCLPC p. 4, Curbed
    • ALT1:... that during construction of the 1 Wall Street Court (pictured), some of the workers went on strike, prompting the contractor to hire longshoremen? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57538892/
    • ALT2:... that 1 Wall Street Court (pictured), built as a speculative development on a narrow lot, was the headquarters of a shipping line and the world's largest cocoa market? Source: NYCLPC pp. 2, 4

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 14:54, 21 August 2020 (UTC).

After the copyvio cleanup, it was 850 characters and is now almost 15,000 so well over 5x expansion (which was just completed, so no time issue either). Well cited, no apparent policy issues. No problems with image, available on commons since 2011 and looks good at small size.
I find ALT1 isn't that interesting and ALT2 is wordy. ALT0 is best (the facts are verified in the source), but it really wasn't a "cocoa market", it was a "cocoa futures market" or "cocoa exchange". I propose a slight tweak:
Symbol question.svg If nom is OK with this and provides a QPQ, should be good to go. MB 02:05, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Template:Re Thanks for the review. I'm OK with ALT0a, and I've added a QPQ. epicgenius (talk) 23:03, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go with ALT0a. MB 23:09, 23 August 2020 (UTC)