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Kevin Walsh

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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.

  • Forgotten Slices

    QUEENSBORO APPROACH

    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 18, 2021 6 comments

    Your boy has bronchitis two weeks after receiving a second Covid shot, so I’m taking it easy. Instead, it’s time for another Sunday with Sergey Kadinsky… By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY…

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  • One Shots

    PORTICO PLACE, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2021 0 comment

    No doubt, the handsomest building on West 13th Street in the Village is between 6th and 7th Avenues: Village Presbyterian Church, now residences called Portico Place. Nothing at all was…

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  • MAP ROOMRoads

    APEX AND AERO, Forest Hills

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2021 4 comments

    As many Forgotten NY fans know, I’m attracted to the odd roads that defy the grid, because often they point the way to preexisting roads that existed in the past.…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    ARDSLEY SIGN, Douglaston

    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2021 2 comments

    I found this sign on the Douglaston peninsula recently, at West Drive and Ardsley Road. It was hiding behind a hedge, but I have a feeling it’s been there for…

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  • One Shots

    VAN WYCK HOUSE, Douglaston

    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 12, 2021 2 comments

    Scotsman George Douglas purchased the peninsula from Wynant Van Zandt in 1835. The region was later developed as a suburban resort and exclusive enclave, and enjoys pleasant views of Little…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    WEST 4TH STREET SIGNS

    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2021 13 comments

    *I’m doing something a bit different this Sunday; instead of the usual longform page, I’m doing a shorter page because I was just hired part time at Marquis Who’s Who…

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  • Alleys

    GAY STREET, Greenwich Village

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2021 4 comments

    Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which  contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    TRANSCONTINENTAL MYSTERY, Kensington

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2021 16 comments

    There is a small cluster of streets south of the Fort Hamilton Parkway border with Green-Wood Cemetery between 36th Street and Dahill Road, where the streets have four women’s names…

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  • One Shots

    SHERRY NETHERLAND CLOCK, 5th Avenue

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2021 4 comments

    In the early 20th Century, not everyone necessarily wore a watch. Men carried expensive pocket watches, but until the advent of the wristwatch, time was tracked by clocks of various…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    PROSPECT PARK STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2021 3 comments

    The NYC subway has its share of “station houses” originally built to let people wait for trains, if they didn’t want to do so on the platforms, if they chose.…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    7th AVENUE REMNANT

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2021 3 comments

    Back in 2012 I was shuffling down 7th Avenue in Park Slope and I spied this glass leaf lettering in a window of an art gallery at #57 7th Avenue…

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  • Subways & Trains

    METS-WILLETS POINT STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2021 17 comments

    2020 marked the first year I hadn’t attended any Mets games at Citifield or Shea Stadium in many years, to my knowledge, but there were just 30 games all year,…

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