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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.

  • One Shots

    INVICTUS TRIANGLE

    by Kevin Walsh July 22, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 22, 2025 0 comment

    JAMAICA Estates, built on the northern edge of the former Town of Jamaica in the 1905-1907 period, occupies about 500 acres between Homelawn Street, Hillside Avenue, 188th Street and Union…

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  • One Shots

    JAMAICA STREET CLOCK

    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 21, 2025 4 comments

    YEARS beyond comprehension ago … perhaps 1998 or 1999 … I photographed this broken down street clock on the east side of Sutphin Boulevard south of Jamaica Avenue. At the…

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  • Neighborhoods

    SUBWAY TO THE PLAZA

    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 19, 2025 3 comments

    OVER the years, Kevin documented hotels that had direct connections to underground transit, such as the Knickerbocker in Times Square, Waldorf-Astoria’s private track, Pennsylvania Hotel’s subway entrance, and Clark Street…

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  • One Shots

    GIGLIO

    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 18, 2025 1 comment

    WHILE most people in Williamsburg’s Italian section know about the Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola Feast in which thousands of revelers pack the streets every mid-July…

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  • Neighborhoods

    PEARL DINER

    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 17, 2025 5 comments

    SORRY to say I have never been inside the Pearl Diner #212 Pearl at Fletcher Street, as I usually don’t find myself in the crowded Financial District during the week.…

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  • One Shots

    ENGINE 240

    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 16, 2025 0 comment

    ENGINE 240/Battalion 48 on Prospect Ave. south of Greenwood is one of Brooklyn’s and NYC’s more exotic firehouses, with a corner turret with intricately carved stonework. My friend Emily Nonko…

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  • One Shots

    COMFORT DINER

    by Kevin Walsh July 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 15, 2025 5 comments

    I had never eaten at the Comfort Diner — in the 1980s called the Jay Dee Coffee Shop — while working at Photo-Lettering, though at 214, Jay Dee was right…

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  • One Shots

    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CITY HALL

    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 14, 2025 3 comments

    BEN Franklin’s presence on Park Row is one of the last vestiges of Park Row’s former claim to fame as “Newspaper Row.” At one time, the New York Times, World, Sun, Journal and Tribune all were…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    FULTON STREET DOWNTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 13, 2025 5 comments

    I don’t have the time or inclination to research it right now, but it can’t be a complete coincidence. Both Manhattan and Brooklyn’s Fulton Streets scythe through the downtown sections…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    PASSIONIST RETREAT HOUSE SIGN

    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 12, 2025 7 comments

    JAMAICA Estates, built on the northern edge of the former Town of Jamaica in the 1905-1907 period, occupies about 500 acres between Home Lawn Street, Hillside Avenue, 188th Street and…

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  • One Shots

    HOTEL KELLER GREENWICH VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 10, 2025 3 comments

    I should have gotten a better photo of the Hotel Keller, West and Barrow Streets, back in 2021, but the rushing West Street traffic prevented me from positioning myself better.…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    YORKVILLE GLOCKENSPIEL

    by Kevin Walsh July 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh July 9, 2025 3 comments

    At the northwest corner of York Avenue and East 83rd Street is an unassuming 19th-century walkup with a realistic mural depicting a glockenspiel. Titled Glockenspiel, it honors the German community…

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