Talk:Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building (175 Broadway)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 18:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

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• What makes the following reliable sources?
  • amny.com
    • AM New York Metro is a free daily newspaper owned by Schneps Media. If I recall correctly, they have a fact-checking process similar to other newspapers like the NY Daily News or the NY Times. Epicgenius (talk) 00:46, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
  • curbed.com
    • curbed.com is a website run by Vox Media. It is now part of New York magazine, which is listed on WP:RSP as a reliable source, but the quality of pre-2010 articles varies (since it was a blog back then). Epicgenius (talk) 00:46, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• "The symbolism of the dome led bank officials to request the inclusion of a dome atop its second headquarters": what is meant by "the symbolism of the dome"? Just that they liked it?
  • Yes, pretty much. I've clarified this now. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• "The banking room originally had ornate marble floors...In the early 2010s, the banking room's floor was replaced with blocks of marble from Lebanon, as only a quarter of the original floor remained. The surviving floor, made of Siena marble, was used for the bathrooms": assuming that these are the same, suggest "The banking room originally had ornate Siena marble floors...In the early 2010s, the banking room's floor was replaced with blocks of marble from Lebanon, as only a quarter of the original Siena marble floor remained; this was used for the bathrooms."
  • Done. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• Suggest linking Neo-Grec.
  • Done. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• "Karl Muller was hired to create an allegorical sculptural group for the bank's exterior": this doesn't seem to be mentioned elsewhere; do we know if this was completed?
  • It was indeed completed. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• Are there more details about the 1925 annex? Doesn't seem like there would have been much room for an expansion to the north, and the view on Google Maps doesn't show any obvious separately constructed bit there.
  • Unfortunately, there are no details about that bit. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• "At the time, 75 percent of the original marble floors had been damaged": this is odd, because we know that 75% of the original floors were no longer there by 2010. Then we get "New marble floors were installed in the banking room, while the remnants of the original floors were moved to the restrooms" which seems inconsistent with the earlier statement that the bathrooms were the only places with the original marble.
  • I removed the "75 percent" bit because the source says only 25 percent of the original marble remained. As for bathrooms/restrooms, these are synonymous in American English. For a minute, I was trying to figure out where the inconsistency was, because I was thinking "yeah, the restrooms were the only places with the original marble". Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

    Struck. I did know that restrooms and bathrooms are the same thing in AmEng; I was just confused because I hadn't realized that two references (in "Original banking room" and "Conversion to event venue") to three-quarters of the marble floor being gone and the only remaining marble being used for the bathrooms were both referring to the same remodeling event. Having reread I think it's clear enough. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

• "The skylight above the original banking room was damaged after having been stored for three-quarters of a century": what does "stored" mean? Closed off? Or had the fitting been physically removed and stored somewhere?
  • I clarified that it had been placed in storage. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
• Are any of the films or TV shows shot there notable enough to be worth naming?
  • Not particularly, but I can look for some works that are mentioned in reliable sources if you want. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

    No need; I asked in case something very well-known had been filmed there. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:57, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

• @Mike Christie: Thank you for the review. I have now replied to some of your comments and will address the rest later. Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Everything looks good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.