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A fact from New York World Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the New York World Building, once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/New York World Building.

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Fire?[edit]

Previous version of this page stated "The World Building was rebuilt at an unknown date after a fire completely destroyed it. In turn the rebuilt building was demolished ..." I think this is wrong and is just a confusion with a fire on January 31, 1882 that destroyed a building that had previously been the location of the World. That building was also known as the World Building or the Potter Building and stood at the location of the current (terra cotta) Potter Building. The World newspaper had moved out from the building a "few months" before the fire.

KHirsch (talk) 17:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It seems there was a fire at the New York World Building, but it was not serious and did not "destroy" it. See Escape Barred By Smoke, New York Times, September 13, 1895 One possible reason for the confusion might be a fire in the World building is a plot point in a fictional work Time and Again (novel).

173.87.157.34 (talk) 01:54, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What was the address of this building? --Robertknyc (talk) 07:33, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The fire in January, 1882 destroyed "the Potter, or old World, Building, at Park-row, Nassau, and Beekman streets". The current Potter building on that block is described in the Landmark Designation Report as "35-38 Park Row (aka 2-8 Beekman Street and 139-145 Nassau Street)". (I don't know why the Park Row addresses include both even and odd numbers. The New York World's address at that time was apparently 35 Park Row.) The address of the building that is the subject of this wiki article (aka The Pulitzer Building) was 53-63 Park Row, on the corner of Park Row and Frankfort, where the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramp is.——KHirsch (talk) 15:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think noting the address in the article is important for reference purposes. Would you like to do it KHirsch, or should I? Feel free. --Robertknyc (talk) 06:25, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation for the differing floor counts[edit]

The article says it's claimed as 20 stories, but is only 16 or 18 by modern standards - what exactly does that mean? What is the difference in modern standards that accounts for this discrepancy? Does the 20 count the basement floors or something? Were some floors just double-height? Were they counting mezzanines as full floors? Article could use some clarification on that point. 97.100.235.208 (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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) 19:28, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the New York World Building was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge? Source: "World Building May Be Razed For Bridge Plan: Approaches to Brooklyn Bridge, Proposed to City Would Doom Landmark World Building Faces Razing for New Bridge Approaches". New York Herald Tribune. November 23, 1952. p. 31.
- ALT1:... that the New York World Building, once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge? Source: NY Herald Tribune 1952; Skyscraper Museum
- ALT2:... that the New York World Building's architect bet that the building would be erected within its $1 million budget, though it ended up costing twice that? Source: Landau, Sarah; Condit, Carl W. (1996). Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865–1913. Yale University Press. p. 197
- ALT3:... that during a heat wave in 1900, a "noted rainmaker" was hired to detonate two dozen "rain bombs" from the New York World Building's dome? Source: NY Evening World 1900
- ALT4:... that Joseph Pulitzer developed the New York World Building on the site of a hotel that he had been thrown out of during the American Civil War? Source: Burrows, Edwin G. & Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1051.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Josette Elayi

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Very impressive work. This article is now quite beautiful. Article meets length and newness requirements with a > 5x expansion on 9/28. The article is well written and sourced. Earwig detects no copyvio/plagiarism problems. The hooks are all short enough and interesting, though I find alts 1, 3 and 4 to be the better ones. Some sources for the hook facts are off-line and accepted in good faith. QPQ complete. Cbl62 (talk) 16:03, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]