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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.

  • Subways & Trains

    HUNT’S POINT STATION

    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 29, 2023 0 comment

    HUNT’S Point in the Bronx, an enclave relatively cut off from Longwood by the Amtrak railroad cut and Bruckner Expressway, is where auto glass, auto parts, light industry and manufacturing are…

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  • Alleys

    LOTTS LANE, MARINE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 28, 2023 3 comments

    I have a keen eye for spotting ancient alleys and driveways that were once roads. When I lived in Brooklyn between 1957 and 1993 I spent springs and summers in…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BRONX OPERA HOUSE, THE HUB

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2023 2 comments

    BOSTON may be known as the “Hub of the Universe” but the south Bronx has its very own Hub where four roads converge: East 149th Street and Willis, Melrose and Third Avenues, while…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MILLER FIELD, NEW DORP

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2023 4 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…

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  • Neighborhoods

    ELEGY: R-46 SUBWAY CAR

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2023 12 comments

    NEW R-211 subway cars have arrived on the 8th Avenue line, currently serving the A express line. Since I moved to Queens and take the Long Island Rail Road to…

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  • Ads

    FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, NEW BRIGHTON

    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 23, 2023 5 comments

    FLETCHER’S Castoria ads have been a staple in the Forgotten New York ancient painted ads category from the very beginning, back in 1999. They can be seen frequently in photographs…

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  • One Shots

    LOTT HOUSE, MARINE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2023 1 comment

    JOHANNES Lott built a small house on his Flatlands property about 1720 on land first settled by Dutchman Hugh Aerens as far back as 1636. In the 1700s, Gerritsen Creek…

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  • One Shots

    JOHN STREET

    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 21, 2023 3 comments

    JOHN. It’s probably the most common given name in the English language. Most Johns walking around today are likely named for their father, or a prominent family member, who were…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PLATFORM LIGHTING, Corona-Flushing

    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 20, 2023 5 comments

    An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    FINIAL DESTINATION, CITY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2023 10 comments

    BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SWING drawbridges used to be very common across this city, appearing not only on the Harlem River, but also at Newtown Creek, Flushing Creek, and…

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  • One Shots

    PURCHASE BUILDING, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2023 6 comments

    WHEN the NYC Department of Purchase Building, at Water and New Dock Streets under the Brooklyn Bridge, was demolished in 2008, it wasn’t without protest from preservationists who wanted to…

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  • Street Lamps

    DONALD DESKEY, Huntington

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2023 1 comment

    I was in Huntington Village on Long Island a few years ago to attend a book signing for Wayne Coffey’s “They Said It Couldn’t Be Done,” his account of the…

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