Sarah Kamboj
September 2, 2007
If you ever have some free time or have the desire to gain knowledge about New York's hidden fascination, sign on to the Forgotten-ny.com internet site. It is a fascinating website about New York. From alleys to the parks, from subways to the numerous cemeteries, this website is a grand tour of New York. This website incorporates everything one craves to know, notice, and gain knowledge of regarding New York. There are updates with references to recent events in New York as well as astonishing, mind-boggling, unimaginable sites, (for example: animals, waterfalls, etc).
I clicked on several links from Forgotten-ny.com, and found myself amazed with the numerous information it had to offer. The one that drew my attention first was "Queens Crap", mostly because I was born and raised in Queens. This page had blog entries updates on recent events, opinions, facts about New York. For example; the most recent blog titled "Building Wall Collapses in Jamaica" dated September 1, 2007 where a building collapsed on Thursday morning of August 30, 2007. Interestingly my mother was explaining to us about this event because this building was right across from the building my mother works. There was a video clip of the tragic event which helped me to visualize and unfold the incident.
Another blog entry I found extremely interesting was posted on Thursday August 31, 2007 titled "Riders Give 7 a 'C Minus'", because I often ride the 7 line when I go to the city, shopping with my best friend. This blog entry had a picture of a report card given to the 7 train. The report card indicated various categories and the specific grades it received. For the 7 line's availability of Metro Card machines it received a grade of B-, for its cleanliness of station it received a grade of C-, for its courtesy and helpfulness of MTA employees it received a grade of C, for its lack of graffiti it received a grade of C+, for its station announcements it received a grade of D+, and for its adequate room during rush hour it received a grade of D. Its overall grade, to my surprise was a C-.
Also, there was a picture that caught my attention on the home page, "Hunters Point, Queens on the Edge". This picture was of a store in Hunters Point and a man with a book bag standing on the side facing the store and walking towards it. Hunters Point is one of the many communities in Queens. It states that "Hunters Point is a community in Queens on the edge-in more ways than one". When clicking on this picture it gave me an entire tour of Hunters Point and all the magnificent sites and facts about this community. I learned that Hunters Point literally sits on the edge of Queens and Manhattan and sadly it is in the process of being taken over by tall buildings and development.
There were various other information and links on this site which interested me as well. This site's purpose is to teach New Yorkers and Non-New Yorkers about New York and all of its amazement. It has information regarding its history as well as the amazing events which occur on a daily basis. For anyone who is curious and interested about learning more about this wonderful place and also those who can reach out and have the desire to help the community in some way should find out more about Forgotten-ny.com. I know that I will be using this site often to learn more about New York.
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