A fact from 140 Broadway appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that after a disgruntled worker dumped parts of 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system into a tank, 10,000 workers were "uncomfortably warm" for weeks until scuba divers retrieved the components?
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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: No consensus: TastyPoutine, I have no problem with you renominating this but I would strongly advise to provide evidence if you're going to be making an argument on the basis of WP:COMMONNAME. Show what reliable sources are calling it, see what Google Ngrams has to say, etc. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH(talk) 22:25, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, no evidence that the WP:COMMONNAME has changed and the proposed title is likely to be less recognizable. Dekimasuよ! 21:45, 10 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Buildings tend to be known by significant historic names long after the entity providing the name is gone. bd2412T 13:00, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
So what is actually the evidence that this is the common name of the building. Since 2000, there is one mention of the building as The Marine Midland Building in The NY Times and that refers to an incident that occurred in the 1960’s when it was called that. Prior to 2000, it referred to the building as Marine Midland far more often. The NY Post refers to it as the Marine Midland building exactly zero times. But it does refer to the building as 140 Broadway as early as 2001. More contemporary sources for the most part, they use the name at all, say the “former Marine Midland Building” or aka the Marine Midland Building. The name seems to be singularly uncommon as far as reliable sources are concerned. TastyPoutinetalk (if you dare) 12:57, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Striking oppose, but I will not support at this time since this is anecdotal evidence. It is not bad anecdotal evidence, but at least this much should have been included in the original proposal. The burden of presenting evidence is on editors hoping to make a change. Dekimasuよ! 17:38, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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... that the construction of 140 Broadway(pictured) in New York City's Financial District was so quiet that a nearby office worker said his lawnmower made more noise? Source: NY Times 1966
ALT1:... that Ada Louise Huxtable called 140 Broadway(pictured) "not only one of [the] buildings I admire most in New York, but that I admire most anywhere"? Source: New York 1960 : architecture and urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. p. 180
ALT2:... that after 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system was dumped into a tank, its 10,000 workers went without air conditioning for weeks until scuba divers retrieved it? Source: NY Times 1984
Overall: interesting read, i think ALT0 is the hookiest and best to use, if ALT2 was used then it should be changed to "that after parts of 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system were dumped into a tank, 10,000 workers went without air conditioning for weeks until scuba divers retrieved them?" because otherwise it seems the whole system went in the tank Mujinga (talk) 19:37, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
interesting read, i think ALT0 is the hookiest and best to use, if ALT2 was used then it should be changed to "that after parts of 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system were dumped into a tank, 10,000 workers went without air conditioning for weeks until scuba divers retrieved them?" because otherwise it seems the whole system went in the tank Mujinga (talk) 19:37, 9 May 2020 (UTC)