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Blessed Sacrament Church in Cypress Hills

Am I really the only person on Wikipedia who has any images of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 16:34, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Because I thought this would've been a frequently photographed church here.

• Isn't this the church that appeared in the last or next-to-last episode of the CBS TV series Elementary, where Holmes had his AA meeting? If it is, it was quite impressive. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:17, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

I've done a little research and created a Wikidata item for the church - Blessed Sacrament Church (Q41034422) - it can sometimes be a good staging ground for covering a building like this, as you don't need to demonstrate notability in the same way as Wikipedia.--Pharos (talk) 00:58, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

No promises, but I may try to get out there this weekend. It's much harder for me to get to further-out parts of Brooklyn since I moved from midtown to "upstate Manhattan", but the church looks like it's right off the A train, so it's just a matter of find the 4 hours it would take to get there, take some pics (and some others in the area) and get back. Maybe I can do it on Friday when I have to be downtown anyway, we'll see. Beyond My Ken (talk) 01:08, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Actually, it's off the J train, but I suppose you can transfer at Broadway Junction (New York City Subway). ---------User:DanTD (talk) 13:25, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the helpful correction. Beyond My Ken (talk) 19:46, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome. And though I'm glad many of you like picture I've posted...--------User:DanTD (talk) 12:39, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

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  I have two others...
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  .. and shots from other angles would be great.

Sunday October 15: Wikipedia @ Open House New York / Weekend Photo Competition

We'd like to invite WikiProject New York City folks to participate n this event, which is part of the larger Open House New York Weekend. We've held some other in-person NYC events, but this is the first one in a long time with a strong local history focus (which is what attracted me to Wikipedia in the first place, like others here) and I hope people might find that interesting too.--Pharos (talk) 15:40, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red November contest open to all

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--Ipigott (talk) 07:53, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Chelsea Park image request

Does anyone happen to have more photos of Chelsea Park? I looked on Commons and didn't find any photos specifically for that park, and only found one photo on Flickr. epicgenius (talk) 14:25, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Ongoing FAC

Members of this WikiProject might be interested in leaving comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Lady Gaga/archive2. Snuggums (talk / edits) 16:15, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Ruby Karp

Ruby Karp is a recently created article. Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at it and assessing it? -- Marchjuly (talk) 23:29, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Important notice

Resolved

DNAinfo and Gothamist have both suddenly shut down with all of their articles redirecting to the shutdown notice (source), leaving hundreds if not thousands of dead links across the entire wiki. These links should be archived ASAP. Here is a list of links:

• Gothamist (1,451 results)
• DNAinfo (744 results)

epicgenius (talk) 00:34, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Never mind, I made a bot request and it has been fulfilled. epicgenius (talk) 13:39, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

Flatiron District boundaries

Concerning the boundaries of the Flatiron District in NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_District

This entry says: "Generally the Flatiron District is bounded by 20th Street, Union Square and Greenwich Village to the south; the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) or Seventh Avenue and Chelsea to the west; 25th Street and NoMad to the north; Rose Hill to the northeast, and Lexington Avenue/Irving Place, Gramercy Park to the east.[1][2]"

The Department of City Planning in NYC rezoning application for Ladies Mile says it is in the Flatiron District, it says: "This application seeks to rezone a 5- block area in the Flatiron District. The area is located on the midblocks between Fifth and Sixth avenues, from the centerline between 16th and 17th streets to the south, to 22nd Street on the north. Except for two properties in its southwest corner, the entire Rezoning Area is located within the Ladies Mile Historic District." See: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/ladies-mile/ladiesmile.pdf

Quoting the NYT: "The boundaries of the Flatiron can be a subject of disagreement, but the district generally runs from the Avenue of the Americas to Park Avenue South between 14th and 23rd Streets, excluding the blocks adjacent to Union Square. Still, as often happens when a neighborhood becomes popular, some see its borders as expanded. The Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership, the six-year-old business improvement district that keeps streets clean and maintains two public plazas created on Broadway in 2008, places the northern boundary in the upper 20s, an area some call NoMad, or North of Madison Square Park."

Based on architectural style many other sites cite similar boundaries for the District: - https://www.compass.com/neighborhood-guides/nyc/flatiron/ - https://www.airbnb.com/locations/new-york/flatiron-district - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/realestate/flatiron-district-living-in-profile-always-high-keeps-current-too.html

I understand the Flatiron/23rd St Bid and real-estate interests want to define the district differently, but their map does not make sense architecturally and runs counter to NYC's boundaries, NYT's boundaries and many other respected sources.

More research will find city documents that agree with the NYT's boundaries, more than the BID's boundaries. In the interest of accuracy we should change the boundaries in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_District to reflect this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Randomplace (talk • contribs) 20:16, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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