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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

    BEDFORD AVENUE THEATRE, WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 12, 2026 0 comment

    This building at 107 South 6th Street in Williamsburg, just north of its junction with Broadway and Bedford, is the former front of the Bedford Avenue or Empire Theatre and then…

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  • One Shots

    VAN NEST LANES, MORRIS PARK

    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 11, 2026 2 comments

    I am a “recovered” bowler. I bowled frequently between 1967 and the mid-1980s. I have mentioned my adventures from time to time in Forgotten New York. I doggedly pursued the…

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  • Neighborhoods

    RETURN TO TOTTENVILLE 2025

    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 9, 2026 4 comments

    GOOGLE MAP: WALKING TOTTENVILLE 2025 It had been since 2017 since I walked extensively around Tottenville, the southernmost point in New York State (it would be the southernmost town in…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SECRETS OF THE BILTMORE TOWER

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2026 0 comment

    THE blocks around Grand Central Terminal are the most ideal workplaces in the city for their connections to transit. In the last century before airplanes became the dominant form of…

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  • One Shots

    TRINITY CHURCH’S SECRET DOOR

    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 7, 2026 4 comments

    BY NATALIA PARUZForgotten New York guest post HIDDEN in plain sight, just steps from the bustling main doors of Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, lies a piece of…

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  • Street Lamps

    LAMPPOST TRIO, VERDI SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 6, 2026 0 comment

    THERE are three separate styles of lampposts at the new-ish 72nd Street stationhouse at Verdi Square, where Broadway meets Amsterdam Avenue. Two I am familiar with, while the other one…

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  • Alleys

    WILLOW PLACE AND STUART LANE, DOUGLASTON

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2026 0 comment

    UPON ambling through Douglaston to take in the crisp spring air (an El Niño is developing that will keep it hot and humid for a few months soon enough) I…

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  • Subways & Trains

    BIRCHALL AVENUE, BRONX PARK

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2026 0 comment

    PROBABLY the obscurest and shortest street that is traversed by a NYC elevated subway is Birchall Avenue, which runs from White Plains Road south beyond Sagamore Street to a dead…

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  • Street Scenes

    ITALIAN TOWN: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA

    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh May 2, 2026 3 comments

    AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, I…

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  • One Shots

    FARRAGUT MEMORIAL, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2026 3 comments

    GREATEST naval commander of the Civil War David Farragut’s father was a Spanish sea captain who fought for the colonies in the Revolution. After his mother died, his father allowed…

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  • One Shots

    DINGER BUILDING, GREAT KILLS

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2026 7 comments

    YOU don’t expect to find a 3-story mixed-use brick building quite like this one all the way south in Great Kills, Staten Island, but that’s what you’ve got at Amboy…

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  • Cemeteries

    BAYSIDE CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2026 2 comments

    ASK any person on the street in Queens where they think Bayside Cemetery is, and the inevitable answer would be … Bayside. Not the case. Bayside Cemetery is actually one…

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