2. De Witt Clinton Park is Home to One of Several ‘Doughboy’ Statues in the City
Dotted in various spots around New York are these quirky named memorials to young men who lost their lives in World War I. This one in Hell’s Kitchen was put up in 1929 and bears an inscription of the last three lines of the poem, In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae, a surgeon at Ypres. No one really knows where the term ‘doughboy’ came from; it may have been coined in the 19th-century, stemming from the doughnut-like buttons on soldier uniforms, or from their doughy rations.
Next, check out 10 Traces of World War I You Can Still Find in NYC.