Talk:Broad Exchange Building

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Did you know... that when built, the Broad Exchange Building was described as "a town under a single roof"?

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“. . . 326,500 sq ft of rentable space per floor . . . “

326,500 sq ft per floor - this must be wrong I don’t think thar’s possible for a NYC building. That would make it 10 floors wide by 326-1/2 floors deep. Or, 65 floors wide by 50 floors deep. Calculating 10’h per story.I think this building might be 326,500 rentable sq.ft. in total. Even today (as a renovation project) it is described as “obtaining an Historic Investment Tax Credit for a 500,000sf 21 story” building. BrookshireArtist (talk) 02:06, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 02:05, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Broad Exchange Building

... that the owners of the Broad Exchange Building (pictured) bought an adjacent building, described as "one of the most expensive coal chutes" in the United States, for $325,000 to haul out coal? Source: NY Tribune 1912
- ALT1:... that the Broad Exchange Building (pictured), once Manhattan's largest office building, was one of the first major Lower Manhattan office buildings to be converted to apartments? Source: NY Times 1997
- ALT2:... that when built, the Broad Exchange Building (pictured) was described as "a town under a single roof"? Source: Real Estate Record and Guide

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Wells House, Ilkley

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 16:56, 24 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Article was 5x expanded within 7 days of nomination (1149B to 18KB of prose). QPQ has been completed. Article is well-written and reliably sourced. Earwigs found no copyvio and no close paraphrasing. Hooks are cited, short enough for DYK, and interesting. Morgan695 (talk) 01:48, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Eddie891 (talk · contribs) 02:12, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

...two...Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 02:12, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I'm unclear how building an office building can be speculative? Certainly purchasing land can be and often is...
- I clarified that it is a speculative development. It wasn't built with a specific tenant in mind, but that might be something better suited for the link to the "speculative development" page. epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe add a note to the lede about uncertainty wrt number of stories?
- Done
: now mostly concealed," Worth saying what by?
- Removed I only included this because modern sources were unable to ascertain whether this fact was still true. epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
" than previous buildings" than most?
- Added
"the building contained five elevators" Perhaps "fire elevators were added to the building"?
- Hmm, not sure about this. The proposed wording makes it sound like five more elevators were added besides the existing elevators. However, the source says there are five elevators total, which is a marked decrease from its peak of 14-18 elevators. I reworded it to "the building has had five elevators". epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
"e 41 Broad Street, "one of the most expensive coal chutes in this country"" who is being quoted?
- Added

Pretty standard stuff, nice work. More to come Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:17, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Images are suitable licenced
Earwigs suggests this is clear, no indication otherwise in my spotchecks
Sources are reliable, check comes up almost clean except for one clarification that I went ahead and added to the article. Additionally, the Emporis source gives it's height as 276.55
- That is weird. I swore I saw it say something else, but I might chalk that down to confusion. epicgenius (talk) 23:57, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
* Epicgenius one minor point -- Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 23:44, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- @Eddie891: Thanks for the review. I have fixed that issue now. epicgenius (talk) 23:57, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Short review, but I'm not seeing anything else that needs addressing. Passing. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]