Nella Larsen, a writer, became a star of the Harlem Renaissance with her novels “Quicksand” and “Passing.” Forgotten for years, she was rediscovered in the late 20th century and is now taught in literature classes across the country.

Emily Warren Roebling oversaw the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. After her husband (and the bridge’s chief engineer) fell ill, she taught herself engineering and took over his duties.

What is definitively known about Mary Ewing Outerbridge is that she set up the nation’s first tennis courts, on Staten Island. What we think we know about Ms. Outerbridge is that she played the first game of tennis in the United States, against her sister Laura. What is still unknown is who, exactly, won that match.

The Overlooked project will continue to add overdue obituaries to The Times’s pages each week. But New York has more extraordinary women in its history than could fit into a newspaper.

Some of them will be featured on LinkNYC kiosks this month, including Mable Lee, a jazz tap dancer and singer; Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first African-American female principal of a New York public school; and Verina Morton Jones, the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Mississippi.