FROM the new Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Samuel Renne house, also known as the Big House and the Bretonniere house, which had been…
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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In December 2025 I took a quick walk in the Rockefeller Center pedestrian passage beneath 6th Avenue for six blocks between 47th and 53rd Streets, accessible in its south end…
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In the early years of this website, Kevin Walsh returned to Atlantic Yards (Now known as Pacific Park) on many occasions, documenting the transformation of a railyard and former meatpacking…
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Continued from Part One I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing…
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I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing sensitivity to wind and…
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AQUEDUCT Walk in Fordham is seen here on West Fordham Road between University and Grand avenues. Back in June 2018 I walked a good deal of the walk, which in…
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Continued from Part One WHEN a website is as old as Forgotten New York, which was conceived in the “stone knives and bearskins” (to quote Mr. Spock) era of the…
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At the height of Manhattan’s decades as a maritime shipping hub, there were 99 numbered piers between Battery Park and 59th Street. Each one represented a specific freight, passenger, and…
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BAYSIDE Avenue in Queens is nowhere near Bayside, the neighborhood. Instead it runs between Union Street and the intersection of 154th Street and 29th Avenue in Flushing. In what is…
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WHEN a website is as old as Forgotten New York, which was conceived in the “stone knives and bearskins” (to quote Mr. Spock) era of the internet in which you…
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PRIOR to 2019 or so, the south side of Delancey Street between Essex and Clinton Streets was undeveloped territory, with lots that were empty or given over to parking. That…
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If you haven’t read Lewis Carroll’s two books featuring his heroine Alice Liddell, “Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” (I admit I haven’t since I was a kid,…
