The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. ( non-admin closure) Rorshacma ( talk) 15:00, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
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This article is on a hotel that never actually existed. It was planned, but never constructed. The only source that talks about it, which is what the entirety of the information on the article comes from, is a single blurb from the New York Times which is nothing more than an announcement of the project, and is not enough to pass the WP:GNG. Every other source being used in the article are about other things that were named after Hendrik Hudson and have nothing to do with this building at all. Searching for more sources on this non-existent hotel brings up nothing but mentions of a different, completely unrelated hotel that bore the same name. And while the argument could be made that this article could be re-purposed to be about that one instead, there is nothing I can find to indicate any notability for that location either. Rorshacma ( talk) 17:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Personally, I think that Salwen has made a somewhat tenuous connection, and were I rewriting this I would include the 1897 plan merely to show that Johnson and Kahn were not the first to have such an idea. Once you get to Alpern 1992 you will realize how much of a potential article there is here anyway. The 1907 pictures in the MCNY collection indicated by Alpern I would expect to be public domain now, and would be worth chasing up by a Wikipedia writer with access, for starters.
See Penrhiw Priory ( AfD discussion) for another building with history that needs attention and that Wikipedia had us believe was (just) a hotel, by the way.
The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. ( non-admin closure) Rorshacma ( talk) 15:00, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
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This article is on a hotel that never actually existed. It was planned, but never constructed. The only source that talks about it, which is what the entirety of the information on the article comes from, is a single blurb from the New York Times which is nothing more than an announcement of the project, and is not enough to pass the WP:GNG. Every other source being used in the article are about other things that were named after Hendrik Hudson and have nothing to do with this building at all. Searching for more sources on this non-existent hotel brings up nothing but mentions of a different, completely unrelated hotel that bore the same name. And while the argument could be made that this article could be re-purposed to be about that one instead, there is nothing I can find to indicate any notability for that location either. Rorshacma ( talk) 17:15, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
Personally, I think that Salwen has made a somewhat tenuous connection, and were I rewriting this I would include the 1897 plan merely to show that Johnson and Kahn were not the first to have such an idea. Once you get to Alpern 1992 you will realize how much of a potential article there is here anyway. The 1907 pictures in the MCNY collection indicated by Alpern I would expect to be public domain now, and would be worth chasing up by a Wikipedia writer with access, for starters.
See Penrhiw Priory ( AfD discussion) for another building with history that needs attention and that Wikipedia had us believe was (just) a hotel, by the way.