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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 ShotsSubways & Trains

    ROCKAWAY TRACKS, Edgemere

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2021 3 comments

    My mission was simple in October 2018—I was going to walk the entire length of the Rockaway peninsula, from Riis Park all the way east to Far Rockaway. I nearly…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VOELKER-ORTH MUSEUM, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2021 1 comment

    A Victorian-era residence, the kind that have long been displaced in Flushing by boring, monolithic apartments and blond brick two-family homes (you know the type…concrete driveways and prominent water meters)…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    CLEARVIEW EXPRESSWAY LAMP, Bayside

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2021 1 comment

    These handsome lamps were standard issue in the 1950s for very specific purposes: they lit pedestrian walkways on expressways built during that decade. Poles very much like it can be…

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  • Roads

    STATION AND DEPOT ROADS, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 21, 2021 6 comments

    On a whim, I decided to walk the entire lengths of two Flushing roads for which I have always had some fascination, Station and Depot Roads in Flushing and Auburndale.…

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  • One Shots

    MARBLETTE CORPORATION, Long Island City

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021 1 comment

    The Astoria Elevated runs from Queensboro Plaza north to Ditmars Boulevard on 31st Street; it has been here since 1917, and was originally run in an unusual joint operation by…

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  • One Shots

    YOUR DAILY PODPHONE, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2021 3 comments

    Over on my Facebook page (you should try it — if you’re a Facebook subscriber, “friend me” — it’s 100% fun with no nastiness, politics and personal attacks) I occasionally…

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  • One Shots

    FLATBUSH TOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2021 2 comments

    Central Flatbush, clustered around Flatbush and Church Avenues, boasts a number of historic buildings in a relatively small area, similar to other originally Dutch Colonial NYC towns like Flushing and…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HIGBIE HOUSE, Springfield Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 16, 2021 5 comments

    In Queens, Springfield Boulevard and Springfield Gardens are a bit misunderstood. The belief persists that the Springfields in these names originated from when Creedmoor State Hospital was a rifle range,…

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  • One Shots

    JACOB RIIS, Riis Park

    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh February 15, 2021 3 comments

    Danish-born crusading journalist and photographer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) made his home in Richmond Hill, Queens, beginning in 1886. In 1887, Riis photographed the squalid, inhumane conditions prevalent in New York City’s…

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