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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

    DAVID’S GARDEN, Flushing Meadows

    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 9, 2022 0 comment

    In the shadow of the imposing Philip Johnson New York State Pavilion Towers sits a quiet verdant oasis called David’s Garden, a tribute to longtime Queens Tribune editor David Oats, who…

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  • Walks

    GRAVESEND TO BENSONHURST

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2022 7 comments

    As I am writing this in early August 2022 we’re in the midst of a long slog of hot, humid weather which is increasingly the trend in NYC as cool…

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  • One Shots

    STRANGE PERSISTENCE: VAN ALST

    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2022 4 comments

    I’LL say it right off the bat this time: long ago, 21st Street, a main artery running from Ditmars through Long Island City to Hunters Point, was called Van Alst…

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  • One Shots

    JACK KEMP, Terrace Gardens

    by Kevin Walsh August 3, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 3, 2022 3 comments

    WHILE taking a daily walk around Terrace Gardens, a development just over the Nassau line near my own Westmoreland Gardens, I found the remains of a Dole-Kemp campaign sticker. Longtime…

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  • One Shots

    CROOKED HOUSE, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2022 6 comments

    EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…

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    NEW DORP LIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh August 1, 2022 1 comment

    I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…

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  • Walks

    WALKING KENMARE

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2022 18 comments

    JUST when it started to get hot in June, I wrapped up my spring 2022 Lower East Side meanderings with a walk east on Kenmare and Delancey Streets. Kenmare Street…

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  • Signs

    MOUNT EVEREST WAY, Jackson Heights

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2022 1 comment

    MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

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  • One Shots

    RACHEL CARSON PLAYGROUND, Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2022 3 comments

    I found it a bit ironic that this shot of a portion of Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street and Geranium Avenue at Kissena Corridor Park features so much pavement…

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    HUNTERS POINT AVENUE STATION

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2022 10 comments

    I haven’t written about the Hunters Point Avenue station for about a decade, but it’s one of my favorites because it’s one of a select few stations in the NYC…

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  • One Shots

    SKYLINE DINER 2022

    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 25, 2022 12 comments

    EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…

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  • Walks

    ASTORIA PARK AND DITMARS

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2022 14 comments

    It was a pleasant day in May and I had completed the Astoria Village leg of my planned excursion that included AV, the west end of Astoria Park, and then…

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Jersey City’s Vorst Belt [SpliceToday]

Corona Beside Us [SpliceToday]

Coffin Man of Queens [SpliceToday]

Came in First at Belmont [SpliceToday]

Burial Yard of Deep Woodside [SpliceToday]

Scenes of the Grymes [SpliceToday]

FNY ON THE RADIO

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Here’s a podcast of my appearance.

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