HIDING in plain sight on a Williamsburg corner, #85 Broadway at Berry Street, is a one-story building, a shack really, that has been a diner for the better part of…
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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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY contributor A comment on the recent FNY piece “Otto Road, Glendale’s Railroad Road” suggested another article on nearby Traffic Avenue in Ridgewood. Traffic Avenue is like…
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THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…
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In this century it is more common for the city to demap streets than to add new roads as it wages an ongoing war on cars. That’s why I was…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE EVEN though I’m having a busy year with photography, having added over 4000 photos to my archive this year alone up to August, I’ve decided to…
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YET one more example of the classic residential architecture of the early 20th Century I found while dazedly trundling through the Upper west Side in April 2021 at #200 West…
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DURING the summer, I walked many of lower Manhattan’s streets lengthwise from end to end, such as Barclay, Park Place, Murray, Warren, Duane. I have held the photos in reserve…
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Is the Studebaker Building on the NE corner of Bedford Avenue and Sterling Place the most beautiful building on Bedford Avenue? It’s certainly the best-preserved building associated with the defunct…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY contributor I’m the type of person who will take the first available spot and walk a while, rather than circulating around looking for a close-up spot…
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EVEN though I’m having a busy year with photography, having added over 4000 photos to my archive this year alone up to August, I’ve decided to use the most recent…
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CONTINUING my fascination with subway stationhouses… not every one of the NYC subways’ outdoor stations has one. Express or important stations on the Original 28 IRT stations built by Heins…
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THERE are a curious pair of short streets in the north end of Bedford Park alongside the Grand Concourse at its northern end at Mosholu Parkway, St. Georges Crescent (no…
