User talk:DanTD/Archive. May - June 2017
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Georgia State Route 393 listed at Redirects for discussion
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Sunday May 21: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon + global online challenge
| Sunday May 21, 10:30 am - 4:30pm: Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon | |
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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Edit-a-thon: Met Open Access Initiative is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's first edit-a-thon, being hosted on Sunday May 21, 2017 in Thomas J. Watson Library at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York City. The Met is excited to make available over 375,000 images of public domain artworks for contribution to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons from the museum’s collection spanning 5,000 years of art. The event is an opportunity for Wikimedia communities to engage The Met's diverse collection onsite and remotely. The event is a key marker too of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's first Wikimedian-in-Residence program, with resident Richard Knipel (User:Pharos), along with Wikimedia NYC. We invite you to help enhance Wikimedia communities and platforms with open access images from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The event requires pre-registration. To register, 1) please sign-up with Eventbrite via The Met's website and 2) add your Wikipedia username to the #Participants on the wikimeetup page. Please check-in with museum staff when you arrive at the Thomas J. Watson Library within the museum. We also welcome remote participation for the global Met Open Access Artworks Challenge (15 May - 30 June, 2017), you can sign up there at Met Open Access Artworks Challenge/Participants. --Pharos (talk) 16:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC) | |
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| Wednesday May 24, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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  You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. Topics this month include the TED wikiproject, the Met wikiproject, and encouraging free video on Wikimedia Commons! We will include a look at the organization and planning for our chapter, and expanding volunteer roles for both regular Wikipedia editors and new participants. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, pizza/chicken/vegetables and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:30, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
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MTA Fonts
Subway mosaic vs TNR Look at those carefully. MTA Subway Mosaic signs do not use Times New Roman. Times New Roman did not even exist when most stations were constructed. The MTA has officially used Helvetica for printed signage since the 60s80s. Something else I have also clarified. My comment about Microsoft Word was me assuming that the original author was treating Arial and Times New Roman as synonyms for sans serif and serif faces, something I assume is picked up by exposure to Microsoft Word. Please abstain from reverting these edits until you get a clue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bunshole8 (talk • contribs) 22:41, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
- I'd check the history of the subway lettering if I were you. The Helvetica lettering did come out in the 1960's. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 00:26, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
Lower Montauk Branch
There is an ongoing study that discusses the possibility of having train service restored to the Lower Montauk Branch. As a result, I thought that it was time for it to be split off of the Montauk Branch article. I have a draft at User:Kew Gardens 613/sandbox 3. I have a feeling that you will be a big help.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 20:53, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
- I have to admit that's an interesting development. Admittedly, I'm not sure it should be called the Lower Montauk Branch anymore since if it is revised as a light rail line, the connection to the Montauk Branch might be lost to anyone other than railfans and older people who are familiar with the line such as ourselves. I'm going to look at one of the links and suggest a spot for the proposed Metro Mall and 80th Street stations on the station list. Will this be under MTA's control, or the PANYNJ, or some other agency? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 23:47, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
- I also wondered about the name, but the page will not exclusively be about the future services, it will also be about the line's past. I presume that it would either by NYCDOT or MTA control.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 11:15, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
Thursday June 22: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA
| Thursday June 22, 6-8:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon @ MoMA | |
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 Join us for an evening of social Wikipedia editing at the Museum of Modern Art Library's third annual Wiki Loves Pride Edit-a-thon, during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to LGBT art, culture and history. All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. Themes for this event include art related to HIV/AIDS activism and on LGBTQ artists of the African Diaspora as part of the Black Lunch Table project. Experienced Wikipedians will be on-hand to assist throughout the day. Please bring your laptop and power cord; we will have library resources, WiFi, and a list of suggested topics on hand.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2017 (UTC) P.S. Stay tuned / sign up early for our Sunday June 25 Hackathon @ Ace Hotel, the Sunday July 9 Wiknic on Governors Island, and other upcoming events. | |
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I am creating some NY Central articles
In my User:Kew Gardens 613/sandbox 3, I am trying to create the following articles: 59th Street (NYC station) 72nd Street (NYC station) 86th Street (NYC station) 110th Street (NYC station) 138th Street (NYC station)
You know a lot on the local railroads, so could you possibly help me write them? Thanks. I have some links to possibly use on the page.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 13:06, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
- 138th Street (NYC station) sounds like the better deal, but if anything, it'd make more sense to concentrate on former station in the Bronx. For the ones you're looking to write about, the original railroad was clearly New York and Harlem Railroad. By any chance, do you have a copy of "The Coming of the New York and Harlem Railroad," by Louis V. Grogan? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 13:19, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) All these abandoned stations would be great with articles - thank you for doing the work! In particular, 138th Street (which was more often known as Mott Haven, if I recall correctly) was an architectural masterpiece. I believe some remains of 110th Street (possibly staircases?) may still be extant and visible.
- Several of your timetable sources are definitely in the public domain, so I have uploaded them to Commons for more stable access:
- You can cite the Commons version of the files as:
<ref>{{cite book |title=[[:File:New York Central and Hudson River Railroad local timetable, June 1889.pdf|New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Local Time Tables]] |publisher=New York Central and Hudson River Railroad |date=June 1889 |via=Wikimedia Commons |pages=}}</ref>and<ref>{{cite book |title=[[:File:New York Central Railroad Electric Division employee timetable, December 1941.pdf|Electric Division New York Terminal District Time-Table No. 54A For Employees Only]] |publisher=New York Central Railroad |date=December 14, 1941 |via=Wikimedia Commons |pages=}}</ref>Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:27, 16 June 2017 (UTC)- Do you know what I'd like to add regarding 138th Street? The scrubbed proposal to build a station at 149th Street just south of Mott Haven Junction, as shown here. Was that supposed to be a replacement for 138th Street? Or were they supposed to operate simultaneously? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 18:40, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
June 2017 NRHP noms on Long Island
At last week's SHPB meeting, there was a lot of love for Long Island: Four new properties are proposed, well scattered around the island:
- Charles and Anna Bates House, 126 Center Street, Greenport. 1845 Greek Revival house modified a decade or so later in Italianate style when the titular owners expanded it into a boardinghouse to take advantage of summer tourist traffic when the LIRR reached Greenport.
- George Sumner Kellogg House, 960 Merrick Road, Baldwin. Built in 1900, this is the last remaining completely intact Queen Anne Style house in Baldwin.
- Residence at 390 Ocean Avenue, Massapequa. 1913 Mission Revival house with tiled roof and structural system of hollow fireproof tile reflecting both a move toward fireproof construction at that time and the earliest modern residential development of Massapequa.
- Second and Ostrander Historic District. Take a look at the maps in the application for the boundaries; apparently it couldn't be easily reduced at this point in the process to address ranges. Basically this is the residential area of Riverhead just north of its already-recognized downtown historic district, where all the people who ran the businesses there built their houses in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Hope you can get some pics of these for whenever they get listed later in the year ... Daniel Case (talk) 18:59, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
- That looks like a lot of love to me. I almost thought the Charles and Anna Bates House could already be here, but it turned out I was wrong. The Second and Ostrander Historic District does have some non-residential structures though. Roanoke Avenue (Suffolk CR 73) goes through the district, and in that section it's got some mixed development there. The former Riverhead Post Office is within the district, and that southeast corner on NY 25 (Main Street) between Union and Ostrander Avenues has a funeral home on the northeast corner of NY 25 and Union Avenue. Need any other street tips for this area? ---------User:DanTD (talk) 19:41, 23 June 2017 (UTC)