Have we forgotten NY?

Forgotten New York is a look into the cultural past of New York, in
all aspects that seem to go unnoticed. The site lays out all of these
focal points, which locals never take into consideration. We never
seem to look at the small things, like store signs and their
historical content, or the different kinds of street lights you can see while
walking in any given neighborhood. The many treasures of New York we
walk past on a daily basis, and never think twice about why its there,
or why it looks the way it does. For those reasons alone, Forgotten
New York is a success, it makes us wonder and gives us some history
all at once. While looking at all of the components of this site, I
found most of them very interesting, but I thought that the most
interesting point was the section dedicated to the subways.

In the subway section of the site, there are many interesting
subsections. I found the section dedicated to the original
28 subway stations particularly interesting. I like to look
at the mosaic names of the stations, and all the factors that give the
station what it is. I think that this component of the site is in
place because it’s something that all New Yorkers look over, on a
daily basis. Every New Yorker has taken the subway in their life, but
never thinks to look twice at the fact that there is so much history
surrounding them. We also seem to forget that although these stations
have been touched up and remodeled, they have still been around for quite some time.

Forgotten New York helps us to look at the things we don’t appreciate
as much as we should. Although it helps us to remember what New York
had, it doesn’t show what it has, nor does it appreciate what it may
have in the future. New York is forever changing and although it
doesn’t appreciate its past just as much as it should, it still has a
lot of growing to do. New York is shaped by its past and its present
but it also needs to pay attention to what may come in the next
hundred years. Will all these things that were once forgotten be
completely gone? Or will New Yorkers realize what they are destroying
and finally begin to appreciate what they have? We wont know, but all
we can do is grasp the culture that our city has hidden behind the
bright lights and graffiti.