Talk:Broad Channel, Queens

Duplicated references

I don't know why, but for some reason, the references repeat themselves even though I believe the wikicode is correct and it looks fine under preview view... Wl219 21:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I've seen the same problem here and elsewhere. Despite debugging, there seems to be nothing wrong. I will research further for other reports. Alansohn 22:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Whatever the problem was, it seems fine now. Thanks for debugging. Wl219 20:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Halloween

The egging of the officers happend in ozone park not in broad channel. The link to the reference doesnt allow the article to be viewd any more.

Its there some type of propaganda going on? Why was the labor day parade incident removed? To try to keep what integrity the neighborhood has left? IT SHOULD DEFINETLY BE MENTIONED —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.92.64 (talk) 15:39, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Historical Images from the Library of Congress

Several Bain photos from 1915 under the title "Jamaica Bay housing boom" are in the public domain

• Family group in living room on Broad Channel Island, Jamaica Bay, New York City.
• Small boats moored beside houses built over water
• Broad Channel Island; connected with mainland by causeway seen in far background
• Small boat "Shrimp" in front of home, Broad Channel Island, Jamaica Bay, New York City.
• Fishing at your front door
• Family life

Ando228 (talk) 02:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Public library

Someone should post a picture of the Broad Channel branch of the Queens Library. It's extremely interesting architecturally--it has curved windows where you can see many of the books on spinners from the outside of the library. Also, is there normally a big pond in the park to the west of the southern bridge? The one way sign looked totally out of place today. If I had had a camera, these are definitely things I would have snapped and uploaded.--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 05:13, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Broad Channel Corporation

I find that Broad Channel Corporation would make for a great Wikipedia article. The only reason I made the convoluted thing is because this is a case where a redirect gets in the way, from an article's perspective.

Broad Channel Corporation as a redirect from other places to here: this is useful and good to have. While it is an obstacle to my goal, I do not want it removed.

But from within this article, it is merely in the way blocking the creation of a standard red link. Not only would the link not be red, it also fails ASTONISH, since the reader, expecting to get somewhere useful, is merely sent back from where they came (=here).

You might have reacted to me creating an article title that does not "comply with Wikipedia's naming conventions" and I wouldn't fight you there, but unless you are arguing we should not have an article on Broad Channel Corporation, you need to come up with a solution that acknowledges that the standard way doesn't work. This is not the first time I've come across this situation; you need to acknowledge the rules aren't providing read-made solutions and work with me, not against me on this one.

Bolding the term works from the perspective of acknowledging the incoming redirect, but that was not my concern. I want to create a link that is actually red, signalling the prospect of Broad Channel Corporation becoming an article sometime in the future. Bolding is thus not a satisfactory replacement.

CapnZapp (talk) 21:40, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Adults still living in the neighborhood

The article says "about 47% of 34-to-40-year-old adults who grew up in Broad Channel still resided in the neighborhood, compared to 20% of adults in that age range citywide who grew up near their childhood homes."

I'd say 100% of the adults in any age range worldwide grew up near their childhood homes.

I guess what you want to say is 20% of adults in that age range citywide still live in the same neighborhood where they grew up. 88.17.44.183 (talk) 11:27, 12 October 2025 (UTC)