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Kevin Walsh

Kevin Walsh

My name is Kevin Walsh. After a 35-year residency in Bay Ridge, where I witnessed the construction of the Verrazano Bridge as a kid (below) I moved to Queens to be closer to my job as a copywriter/graphic designer at a well-known direct marketer in Long Island and then a compositor at the Queens Times Ledger. I had been noticing ancient advertising and street furniture for years, but it wasn't till I moved to Flushing and saw the ancient remaining Victorian and older buildings that stand among the cookie cutter brick apartments that I put two and two together and noticed there was no one out there who was really calling attention to the artifacts of a long-gone New York. Forgotten NY was named one of Forbes' Best City Blogs sites, and in good company: Gothamist and Newyorkology. FNY has been profiled in all of NYC's daily newspapers, and has been mentioned by name in columns by the New York Times' Christopher Gray and David Dunlap and by the New York Sun's Francis Morrone. It has twice been named to the Village Voice's Best of NYC list, most recently in 2006. It has also been cited by PC Magazine's Top 99 "Undiscovered" websites. Forgotten NY is always in great debt to its contributors, especially Forgotten NY correspondent Christina Wilkinson, retired NYC bus driver Gary Fonville, Mike Olshan, Jean Siegel and many other Forgotten regulars. See my Forgotten Fans page for just a few. FNY averages between 1500-2000 unique vistors daily, and 4000-5000 daily visits overall.

  • Street Scenes

    RUTGERS STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2025 0 comment

    BEFORE heading off to see the recently reopened section of East River Park (on an upcoming FNY post) I decided to check out Rutgers Street, because I had never walked…

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  • One Shots

    THE NEW TRYLON AND PERISPHERE

    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2025 0 comment

    LOOKING at this photo I took on 11th Avenue facing west from Clintonville Street in Whitestone, I thought immediately of the old Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939-1940 World’s Fair…

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  • Signs

    A & S PORK, GRAVESEND

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2025 1 comment

    THOUGH “King of the Sausage” Bari has gone, in southern Brooklyn there are still a number of “pork stores,” a combination of Italian-themed grocery and butcher. If I lived near…

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  • Walks

    SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART FOUR

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2025 6 comments

    Continued from Part Three THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they…

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  • Walks

    SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART 3

    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 2, 2025 6 comments

    Continued from Part 2 THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they…

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  • Neighborhoods

    CASHMAN’S TOWER, CONCOURSE

    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 1, 2025 5 comments

    TRAVELING north on the Major Deegan Expressway, the H. W. Wilson lighthouse has been documented by many urban historians. In this century, new residential towers rose along the highway in…

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  • Walks

    SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2025 3 comments

    Continued from Part One THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they…

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  • Walks

    SUNSET PARK TO MASPETH, PART 1

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2025 6 comments

    THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they were doing it on…

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  • Neighborhoods

    GOUPIL BUILDING, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2025 4 comments

    I worked in Midtown on the overnight shift at Photo-Lettering from 1982-1988 before I began carrying a camera everywhere and chronicling what I find infrastructurally interesting, and this was way…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BROADWAY, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2025 11 comments

    I have not done enough pieces about Queens, my adopted borough, lately. Some pages are in the offing. In September I walked in eastern Flushing and Auburndale, getting some photos…

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  • One Shots

    11 SPRING STREET, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2025 4 comments

    WHILE journeying over to Elizabeth Street to view the Elizabeth Street Garden, which locals and preservationists want to save, developers are salivating over, and has become something of a political…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    JERSEY STREET, NEW BRIGHTON

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2025 4 comments

    In the New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, Jersey and York streets run parallel to each other, with a steep slope between them, part of the borough’s complex geology. Kevin…

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