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New

• History of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• Manhattan Bridge subway closures
• 2005 North Brooklyn rezoning
• Brookville Park
• Midwood Park, Brooklyn
• Murray Hill, Queens
• NYC landmarks without articles
  • Anything mentioned in #Links

GAN

Possible candidates

• 555 Edgecombe Avenue
• 69th Regiment Armory - 2000s-present history still needed
• Park Avenue Plaza
• Paramount Plaza
• Royalton Hotel
• Salvation Army Headquarters (Manhattan)

Needs work

• 12 West 56th Street - history missing after mid-20th century, interior missing
• 33rd Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) - sources and history are missing
• 312 and 314 East 53rd Street - cites Daytonian
• Broadway–Chambers Building - history is short
• Charging Bull - need to clean up
• Dyckman Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) - sources and history are missing
• Early history of the IRT subway - Kew Gardens 613 and I am working on this
• Madison Belmont Building
• Whitehall Street

The following subway articles are nearing GA status:

• 15th Street–Prospect Park station
• 36th Street station (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) - needs info about 1990s renovation and design changes to the original southern ends of the platforms after the BRT won the Dual Contracts
• 103rd Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
• 125th Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line) - needs info about viaduct and construction
• Shepherd Avenue station - needs web archive
• Van Siclen Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line) - needs web archive

FAC

• 1 Wall Street
• 28 Liberty Street
• 30 Rockefeller Plaza
• 330 West 42nd Street
• Citigroup Center
• The Dakota
• Manufacturers Trust Company Building
• MetLife Building
• Plaza Hotel
• Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower

To update for FAC

• Central Park - address points raised in previous FAC
• Chrysler Building - flesh out history and other info
• Empire State Building - condense some info, consistency

Other things to do

Assess

• WP:NYC and related
• WP:NYCPT articles

Cleanup

• Historic house museums (multiple)
• Forest Park (Queens)
• Jamaica Savings Bank - article split
• Manhattan Bridge - needs more history, expand on colonnade/arch
• Queensboro Bridge - needs more history, description, just general cleanup

Expansion

• American Museum of Natural History
• Eastern Parkway - needs more history
• Grand Army Plaza
• Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan)
• High Bridge (New York City)
• Highbridge Park
• James A. Farley Building - needs finished history
• Liberty Island - needs more history
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Morgan Library & Museum - needs info on mid-century history, collections
• McCarren Park
• Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn) - needs more history and description
• Williamsburg Bridge - needs more history

Neighborhoods

• Brooklyn Heights
• Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
• Crown Heights, Brooklyn
• Fort Greene, Brooklyn
• Greenpoint, Brooklyn
• Murray Hill, Manhattan
• Park Slope
• Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Subway

• Wall Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
• 14th Street–Union Square station
• 14th Street/Eighth Avenue station
• 34th Street–Herald Square station
• 28th Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
• 33rd Street station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
• 34th Street–Penn Station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
• 42nd Street–Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue station
• Grand Central–42nd Street station
• Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal station
  • split out 42nd Street–Port Authority Bus Terminal station
• West Fourth Street–Washington Square station

Images

Financial District

5 Av

Midtown (canon)

Split

• History of Brooklyn Navy Yard
• History of Central Park?
• History of Coney Island?

Copyvio exclusion

Ignore copyvio from these pages.^{[ citation needed]}

• https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Interborough_Subway_(Historic_American_Engineering_Record)
  • https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_New_York_Rapid_Transit_Decision_of_1900_(Katz)
  • https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_the_IRT_on_New_York_City_(Hood)
  • https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Design_and_Construction_of_the_IRT:_Civil_Engineering_(Scott)
  • https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Design_and_Construction_of_the_IRT:_Electrical_Engineering_(Kimmelman)
  • https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Architectural_Designs_for_New_York%27s_First_Subway_(Framberger)
  • https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Interborough_Rapid_Transit-Historic_American_Engineering_Record_Images

Links

Source links

• NYC Landmarks
• NYS CRIS
• Then & Now
• ZOLA
• NYCityMap
• DOB search
• US Modernist

Specific links

Liberty Island

• Archeology of a Prehistoric Shell Midden, Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York
• ARCHEOLOGICAL MONITORING LIFE AND SAFETY UPGRADES STATUE OF LIBERTY NATIONAL MONUMENT LIBERTY ISLAND, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ny/ny2400/ny2416/data/ny2416data.pdf
• https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/stli1/griswold.pdf

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

• http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1248.pdf
• https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/community/197a-plans/bk1_greenpoint_197a.pdf
• Greenpoint Historic District - https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001692.pdf

Flatiron Building

• Alexiou, Alice Sparberg (2010). The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City that Arose With It. New York: Thomas Dunne/ St. Martin's. ISBN  978-0-312-38468-5.
• NY Times (not the best search though)

Tallman Island

• https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dep/downloads/pdf/environmental-reviews/tallman-island-water-pollution-control-plant-upgrade-program/attachment4f.pdf

Grand Concourse

• http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2403.pdf
• https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/87001388.pdf
• https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cunymain/detail.action?docID=865908

Financial District street grid

• http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/arch_reports/826.pdf

Subway Construction

• https://ia601408.us.archive.org/15/items/irt-capacity-study-final-reportt-redacted/IRT%20Capacity%20Study%20Final%20Reportt_Redacted_.pdf
• studies
• Proceedings for ... : constitution and by-laws with list of members / Brooklyn Engineers' Club
• details on underpinning and other aspects of subway construction from 1919
• sewer siphons
• SI transportation
• Columbus Circle construction
• train dispatching
• Manhattan Bridge Plaza
• the ENY tunnel
• Joralemon
• Joralemon
• excavation
• Atlantic Av improvement
• Brighton Line improvements
• Signaling
• car design
• ventilation
• IRT track design
• Dual Contracts construction

NYCR

• https://www.proquest.com/docview/884007470

NYCL

• 120 West 16th Street - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1632.pdf Media related to 120 West 16th Street New York House and School of Industry at Wikimedia Commons
• 18 East 41st Street - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2581.pdf
• 25 Park Place (Manhattan) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2223.pdf
• 485 Seventh Avenue - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2424.pdf
• 56 Pine Street - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1951.pdf
• 826 Broadway - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2615.pdf
• 827–831 Broadway - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2594.pdf
• 832–834 Broadway - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2617.pdf
• 836 Broadway - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2618.pdf
• 840 Broadway - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2619.pdf
• 841 Broadway - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2620.pdf
• 90–94 Maiden Lane - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1648.pdf
• Astor Court (Bronx Zoo) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1888.pdf
• Bialystoker Center - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2529.pdf
• Bronx Grit Chamber - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1128.pdf
• Chatsworth Apartments (Manhattan) AKA 340–344 West 72nd Street - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1506.pdf
• Congregation Beit Simchat Torah AKA 130 West 30th Street - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2101.pdf
• Edward Ridley & Sons Department Store Buildings - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2397.pdf
• Estey Piano Company Factory AKA Estey Piano Company - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2195.pdf
• Harlem YMCA - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1973.pdf
  • Apparently some info about the Jackie Robinson YMCA Youth Center ( 1848) is also included. So a new article would have to split from there.
• Headquarters Troop, 51st Cavalry Brigade Armory - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2369.pdf
• Hecla Iron Works (redirect) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2146.pdf
• Holland Plaza Building - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2537.pdf
• Hotel Gerard - http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/1982TheGerard.pdf
• Jarmulowsky Bank Building - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2363.pdf
• Kreischerville Workers' Houses - 1, 2, 3, 4
• Keuffel & Esser Company Building - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2178.pdf
• Laboratory Administration Building (BBG) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2214.pdf
• Langston Hughes House - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1135.pdf
• Manhasset Apartments - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1947.pdf
• Messiah Home for Children - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1892.pdf
• Our Saviour New York - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2077.pdf
• Public Bath No. 7 - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1287.pdf
• Regent Theatre (New York City) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1841.pdf
• Richmondtown, Staten Island - (Various, check website.)
• Russell Sage Foundation Building - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2065.pdf
• Sandy Ground, Staten Island - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2414.pdf
• Stewart & Company Building (402-404 Fifth Avenue) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2185.pdf
• The Hotel at Fifth Avenue - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2076.pdf Media related to Aberdeen Hotel 17 West 32nd Street at Wikimedia Commons
• Washington Apartments (New York City) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1842.pdf
• Windermere Apartments AKA 400 West 57th Street - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2171.pdf

Libraries

• 115th Street Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0298.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002704.pdf
• 125th Street Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2305.pdf
• Aguilar Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1837.pdf
• Chatham Square Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2098.pdf
• George Bruce Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2304.pdf
• Hamilton Grange Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0599.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/81000410.pdf
• Hunts Point Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2323.pdf
• Morrisania Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1996.pdf
• Muhlenberg Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2060.pdf
• Park Slope Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1994.pdf
• Port Richmond Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1997.pdf
• Seward Park Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2531.pdf
• Stone Avenue Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2568.pdf
• Tompkins Square Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1998.pdf
• Tottenville Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1867.pdf
• Williamsburgh Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1995.pdf
• Woodstock Library (Bronx) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2322.pdf
• Yorkville Library - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0425.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003386.pdf

Can be expanded

• Decker Building - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1538.pdf
• Fiske Terrace, Brooklyn/ Midwood Park, Brooklyn - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2208.pdf
• Flushing High School - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1798.pdf
• Hotel Theresa - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1843.pdf
• Newtown High School (Queens) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2131.pdf
• Paradise Theater (Bronx) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1891.pdf, http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2193.pdf
• Park Terrace West-West 217th Street Historic District and Inwood, Manhattan - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2621.pdf
• Rogers Peet Building (conversion) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2432.pdf
• Stapleton Heights, Staten Island - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2147.pdf

NRHP

• 48th Police Precinct Station (STUB) - https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001639.pdf
• Green-Wood Cemetery - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315781, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/97000228.pdf

Both

• 69th Regiment Armory - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1228.pdf, https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/e9299782-8d5b-4336-9700-b583d123d40f
• 555 Edgecombe Avenue - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1862.pdf, https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/23f32719-bd63-4243-a832-04828ce08dd0
• Brooklyn Trust Company - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1905.pdf, http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1906.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000632.pdf
• Church Missions House - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1044.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003370.pdf
• Grand Hotel (New York City) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1041.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001725.pdf
• James New York - NoMad - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2602.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/805000088.pdf
• New Brighton Village Hall - https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/78001904.pdf, http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/2782nbvillagehallrecis.pdf
• Park Plaza Apartments (Bronx) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1077.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003346.pdf
• Sunnyslope (Bronx) - http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1079.pdf, https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/83001644.pdf

Other links

• https://streetmix.net/ - I can use this to create street diagrams (CC-BY-SA-4.0) {{ Cc-by-sa-4.0}}
• https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikishootme/
• http://www.elkman.net/nrhp/infobox.php

Rescinded landmarks

• https://www.curbed.com/2015/4/29/9967190/how-some-of-nycs-first-landmarked-buildings-became-rubble
• http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/NYU-Annual-Survey-66-4-Steinberg.pdf

Theater accessibility

• https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-sdny/legacy/2015/03/25/Nederlander%20Organization%20CD%20Exhibits.pdf
• replace this with Jujamcyn's PDF

News sources

• none

Books

• Snow, Richard (1989). Coney Island : a postcard journey to the city of fire. New York: Brightwaters Press. ISBN  978-0-918305-01-5. OCLC  717263184.
• Seltzer, Callahan Pauline - CONEY ISLAND: THE LIMITS AND POSSIBILITIES OF LEISURE IN TURN OF THE CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE

guideline, essay, etc

• Wikipedia:Creating route maps from OpenStreetMap data
• https://hemingwayapp.com/ - readability
• https://ores.wikimedia.org/v3/scores/enwiki/OLDIDNUMBER/articlequality

Detecting AI

• https://contentatscale.ai/ai-content-detector/
• https://copyleaks.com/ai-content-detector
• https://gptzero.me/
• https://writer.com/ai-content-detector/
• https://www.zerogpt.com/

Citation templates

Bold templates are stuff I have easier access to than the rest.

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Landmarks

As of December 31, 2021: Category:New York City scenic landmarks

As of October 2, 2023: Category:New York City interior landmarks

• See User:Epicgenius/sandbox/to do/2
• # of articles is based on "No"/"Not separately" records. NYPL Main is counted once (so 132 listings but 131 potential articles)

Category:Broadway theatres counting defunct theaters (7) and main list (1)

Subway

Category:New York City Subway stations

Category:New York City Subway services (existing)

Category:New York City Subway lines (existing)