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…
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
