GUSTY winds and occasional showers are not my ideal walking conditions, but on the weekend, I’ll take what is offered, as I am working fulltime at home during the week.…
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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At the triangle formed by East New York Avenue and Prospect Place where they meet Rockaway Avenue, you will find a tall building with a bricked-up picture window, as well…
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UNUSUALLY for a NYC subway station that opened in July 1918, the 68th Street-Hunter College station has a mezzanine section built over the tracks. When it’s not too busy, you…
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WHAT a surprise it was when, while pedaling around DUMBO on. a bicycle in the 1970s or 1980s, I took off east down Plymouth Street, navigating the Belgian blocked pavement…
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WOODHAVEN Boulevard is but a mere local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line, which runs express between Rooosevelt and Continental Avenues, but were it built today instead of the…
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JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…
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MANY Corona and Flushing residents, across the mighty Flushing River from each other, believe Willets Point is located just west of the river, where Citifield is. After all, that’s what…
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SON Rise Charismatic Interfaith Church can be found on Staten Island’s main north-south cross-island local street, Richmond Avenue, which roars from Port Richmond all the way to Raritan Bay, opposite…
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JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…
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I have been to Los Angeles twice in my lifetime, to visit family (on my mother’s side) in 1962, when I was four; I have virtually no memory of my…
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WESTCHESTER Square, even to the present day, appears to be a small town hub, clustering around the triangle formed by Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues. The “town” has recently…
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THE southeastern northeastern tip of Staten Island, its closest approach to Long Island, has been protected by fortifications since 1663, when a Dutch blockhouse was established. The area was known…