Talk:The San Remo

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Review: September 1, 2022. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from The San Remo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 September 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the San Remo (pictured) was once described as an "ATM for Democratic presidential campaigns" in the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The San Remo.

Bono

AFAIC, Bono moved into Spielberg's apartment (because the latter was fed up with the long restauration time)

Photo

The current photo is not very good. There should not be trees on the way.

This looks like a suitable replacement if someone less lazy than me takes the time to upload it.--Father Goose 00:10, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Times article

This article in the NY Times has some details about the building (some residents we don't mention, the number of apartments, and some other details). I don't claim that disputes about fireplace smoke are worthy of a mention here, but the article might be a nice source for various details for the article. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:54, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First Image

The first picture is of the El Dorado, not the San Remo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.134.29.90 (talk) 17:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the description of the first photo and pointed it to the El Dorado page. I also deleted the link to it from this page.76.100.0.209 (talk) 01:44, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name of the building

See Talk:The Dakota#Requested move for a discussion about using "the" in the name of an article about an apartment building in NYC's Category:Central Park West Historic District.

See also Talk:The Dakota#Request for comment which has a slightly different focus. --Enkyo2 (talk) 19:06, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trey Parker

I am removing Trey Parker as a resident of the San Remo. From the sources that I've been able to establish he has never lived at the San Remo and when he is actually in New York he stays at a condo he purchased on W 57th St (Per the City of New York property records). YborCityJohn (talk) 06:50, 2 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:The San Remo/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 01:35, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:35, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately tagged, assuming good faith for File:Snowedcentralpark.jpg, for which I can't tell if the uploader is the same as the blogger who took the picture, though it seems likely.

~~I see you just added a New York Post citation; I don't think that's reliable enough, particularly since it's controversial information.~~
Struck as this has been hidden. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:14, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"It was designed with a The old San Remo was operated by Brennan": looks like some editing debris?
- Fixed. Epicgenius (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"There were ten elevators in the San Remo": why past tense? Looking down the article I don't see any more references to the elevators, so it appears this hasn't changed.
- There are still 10 elevators, so I have changed this. Epicgenius (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Two weeks later, a syndicate led by Henry M. Pollock bought the old San Remo from the Brennan estate, as well as several adjacent four-story houses to the west....In April 1929, the Times Holding Corporation (which owned the San Remo Hotel) acquired a house at 4 West 75th Street, which would be razed to make way for the new building's courtyard." As written this implies the latter house was the same footprint as the courtyard, which makes no sense from looking at the layout. Suggest making it "footprint" instead of "courtyard", which doesn't have the same like-for-like implication.
- I've reworded this. The site of the house actually is occupied by the courtyard, but the courtyard does not consist merely of the house's site. Epicgenius (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"and then paid itself an equivalent amount of debt": what does this mean?
- I've removed this, since it's a minor detail. Basically, the Bank of United States paid $1 million for the shares in the building. Simultaneously, the bank also had several subsidiaries, which owed their parent company $1 million. The subsidiaries paid $1 million to their parent company. Epicgenius (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"In December 1932, the bank gave a new first-mortgage loan of $1.5 million to the San Remo Realty Company": this is the first mention of this realty company; did they acquire ownership via this loan? I.e. did they borrow the money in order to purchase the land or lot or both, from the bank?
- I have clarified this now. The realty company was a subsidiary of the bank. Epicgenius (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 23:42, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fixes look good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:37, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

$192,000 donation

Could someone explain the great significance of "giving Kerry $192,000 by April 2004"? That doesn't sound as important as it's made out to be. Errantios (talk) 06:35, 22 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This detail is used to back up the rest of the sentence, which says "The San Remo's residents donated more to the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign than residents of any other building in the United States". They had given $192,000 as of April 2004. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:45, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]