Template:Did you know nominations/St. Regis New York

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 00:46, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

St. Regis New York

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The St. Regis New York

• ... that the operator of the St. Regis Hotel relocated the hotel's main entrance to get a liquor license? Source: "$3,000,000 Hotel Without a License Yet: the Eighteen Story St. Regis is So Close to a Church That Many Complications Have Arisen". New-York Tribune. June 5, 1904. p. A1.
  • ALT1: ... that the first operator of the St. Regis Hotel said news coverage of the hotel was a "positive injury" to business? Source: "Too Well Advertised, St. Regis Man Laments; R.M. Haan Tells the Troubles of the House". The New York Times. November 6, 1904.
  • ALT2: ... that Vincent Astor, who acquired New York City's St. Regis Hotel as a 20-year-old in 1912, owned it for several decades? Source: (1) "Young Astor's Lands Worth $150,000,000; At 21 He Will Control More Millions Than Any Man of His Age in the Country". The New York Times. May 8, 1912. (2) "Quick Legal Moves Kept St. Regis Open After Astor's Death". The New York Times. February 10, 1959. Note that Astor sold the hotel in 1927 and then reacquired it in 1935.
  • ALT3: ... that New York City's St. Regis Hotel was sold three times in less than two years after being owned by the same man for over two decades? Source: "Glickman to Buy St. Regis Hotel; Deal for Property Made With Kratter Corporation". The New York Times. July 29, 1961.
  • ALT4: ... that New York City's St. Regis Hotel was once described as the "grand dame of East 55th Street"? Source: "St. Regis, Now 60 Years Old, Mirrors Era of Gracious Living". The New York Times. September 5, 1964.
  • ALT5: ... that in the 1980s, New York City's St. Regis Hotel was said to have hosted "every U.S. president since its opening"? Source: McArthur, Douglas (January 8, 1983). "Travelling on Business Room for Everyone Now in New York Hotel Boom". The Globe and Mail. p. T8.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/James B. Jones

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:26, 19 December 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

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QPQ: - Not done
Overall: @Epicgenius: Good article. Just waiting on a qpq. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:49, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke: Thanks for the review. I have now done a QPQ, which took even longer than usual because I had limited internet access over the last few days - sorry about that. Epicgenius (talk) 18:32, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:53, 2 January 2023 (UTC)