Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York City

Q59 Bus location

Okay, is this bus in Brooklyn or Queens? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 20:16, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

I've looked on Google Street View and the Q59 schedule, and I still haven't got a clue.

@DanTD: It's in Brooklyn, I can say this much. Grand Ave in Queens is wider. epicgenius (talk) 19:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. I fixed it. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 23:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

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Comments requested

here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:26, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Verrazano-Narrows Bridge name

Someone suggested that I should post a note here drawing interested parties’ attention to edits at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge page. This name should take a hyphen (-), not an en dash (–). In the context of bridge names, en dashes take the place of the word “to”: the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel is the Brooklyn-to-Battery Tunnel. But the Verrazano is not a bridge connecting the Verrazano & the Narrows. Rather, it’s 2 alternative names for the same thing (the Verrazano Bridge and the Narrows Bridge) smushed together. This is exactly analogous to when Ms. Doe & Mr. Roe marry to become Mr. and Ms. Doe-Roe: they use a hyphen. In other words, the rule is not “bridges and tunnels use an en dash instead of a hyphen in their names”; you have to look deeper.

I’m a professional copyeditor with many years’ experience editing to both American and British standards. That makes me a bona fide en-dash weenie—probably the weeniest en-dash weenie of them all—but to use one in Verrazano–Narrows makes no sense. It is a contrived construction that flies in the face of convention. You can tie yourself up in pretzels arguing that it's not a bridge over the Verrazano Narrows (the Narrows themselves not being named for Verrazzano), but the terms "Verrazano" and "Narrows" are still not coordinate ones. Really, though, what's wrong with it is that it snags the eye.

I had made this point on the VNB Talk page and, not hearing any objections after a week, posted it at Moves Requested. The move to Verrazano-Narrows Bridge has been made, and I’m now in the process of going thru What Links Here and tidying up. But I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of the reasoning behind the change so that nobody decides it must be a mistake and starts to undo it without discussion.

I’m also posting this at the Bridges project. Let’s direct discussion to the VNB talk page to keep it all in one place, if that is agreeable. Gould363 (talk) 17:29, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Seems reasonable to me. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Move request underway

Hi all

This is a heads up to let you know that there is a requested move, proposing to move the New York (disambiguation) page to New York, and the current New York page to New York (state). Please go to Talk:New York (disambiguation), read through the request and give your thoughts and feedback in the discussion. Thanks!  — Amakuru (talk) 11:52, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Which city

See Talk:New York#Which city for a discussion of great interest to this WikiProject. Andrewa (talk) 22:18, 19 July 2017 (UTC)