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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.

  • Cemeteries

    LAWRENCE FAMILY CEMETERY, BAYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 2, 2025 1 comment

    TUCKED away in Bayside along Long Island Rail Road tracks at 42nd Avenue between 215th Place and 216th Street is a private cemetery originally belonging to the prominent Queens County…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CENTRAL PARK ARSENAL AND ZOO

    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 1, 2025 2 comments

    FACING the corner of Fifth Avenue and E. 64th Street is a former state militia armory that serves as the headquarters of NYC Parks. As a landmarked building, its history…

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  • One Shots

    DIAMOND’S, CONEY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 27, 2025 4 comments

    In 1940, Diamond’s Dry Goods held down 2516 Mermaid Avenue, west of West 25th Street in Coney Island. The name was displayed in a diamond-shaped motif with a window display…

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  • Out of TownStreet Lamps

    COVINGTON WHEELIES

    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 26, 2025 6 comments

    LARGE cast-iron stoplights I call “Wheelies” first began to show up in the late 1920s as wide boulevards began to appear and traffic got heavier. They appeared on narrower roads as…

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  • Signs

    FOXED LIQUORS, BEDFORD-STUYVESANT

    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 25, 2025 6 comments

    FOR years, I’ve noticed that many liquor stores in the five boroughs have the same signage they must have had decades ago…whether they’re ceramic, painted signs or my favorite, NEON.…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    St. PAUL’S CHURCH SIGN

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2025 4 comments

    In the mid-1760s, NYC had sufficiently grown that the Episcopalian parish of Trinity Church began to expand uptown, and built St. Paul’s Chapel in 1766. When a giant fire broke…

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  • NeighborhoodsOne Shots

    BIG NOSE KATE’S, ROSSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025 1 comment

    SADLY I have never visited Big Nose Kate’s, a saloon way out in Rossville, at 2484 Arthur Kill Road, tucked near the huge Old Bermuda catering hall next to the…

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  • Walks

    FORSYTH FORESIGHT

    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 23, 2025 5 comments

    THIS week I’m continuing with explorations of north-south streets in Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. Having already covered Christie Street and Eldridge Street, I’ll complete the trio…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    THREE FACES OF DOWNER’S

    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 20, 2025 0 comment

    I got this photo at the dawn of Forgotten NY in the winter of 1998 at Bedford Avenue and North 4th, when Williamsburg was still an industrial/ethnic Eastern European stronghold,…

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  • Signs

    3 MILE MARKER, MIDWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 19, 2025 2 comments

    WHEN I lived in Bay Ridge, I would frequently bicycle down Ocean Parkway from Church Avenue to Coney Island. It boasts a world-class bike path and it’s flat as a…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TAPS MANSION, MIDTOWN NORTH

    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 18, 2025 10 comments

    YOU can find connections in NYC in places that are miles apart. Take #36 West 56th Street, a Queen Anne -style mansion built in 1882 by architect Bruce Price for Dr.…

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  • Ads

    ELECTRIC CARS, MIDTOWN NORTH

    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 17, 2025 10 comments

    A painted ad at #315 West 53rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues has perplexed me since I first saw it when I worked in the area between June and…

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