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Did you know... that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company went out of business less than a decade after completing its headquarters building?
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... that Third Street is one of nine bridges crossing the Gowanus canal, a superfund site ...? Source: "The 4th Street basin gave waterway access to the complex. The 100' wide basin, between 4th and 5th Streets, extended from the Gowanus canal to Third Avenue. It provided the Coignet Stoneworks with 1,400 feet of wharf frontage"
ALT1:... that calls for environmental cleanup resulted in the 2009 designation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund Site in New York City?...? Source: "canal was declared an Industrial bio-hazard "
ALT0A: ... that
Whole Foods Market was fined 0.000002 percent of its 2012 revenue for failing to restore the Coignet Building(pictured) near its new store?
ALT1A: ... that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company went out of business less than a decade after completing its headquarters building(pictured)?
ALT2A: ... that by the 2000s, the Coignet Building(pictured) was the oldest known example of ferro-concrete building construction still standing in New York City?
Note for reviewer: While the original hooks were inadequate by DYK standards, I have helped expand this and have come up with some new hooks.
Epicgenius (
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19:08, 26 April 2021 (UTC)reply
This article is new enough and long enough. The image is suitably licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral, and I detected no copyright issues. I like ALT2A best. A QPQ has been done.
Cwmhiraeth (
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05:46, 3 May 2021 (UTC)reply