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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

    271st STREET, GLEN OAKS

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2025 6 comments

    TODAY, I offer a shot of an ordinary residential Queens street just south of 76th Avenue in the shadow of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where I have visited…

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  • One ShotsOut of Town

    BAYLIS HOUSE, FLORAL PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025 0 comment

    In early 2020, while Covid-19 was raging, I had some idle months. One day in July I took the Q36 bus down Little Neck Parkway to Floral Park, just south…

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  • One Shots

    BUZZ-A-RAMA 1965-2022

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2025 20 comments

    JUST knowing something of interest is there can be enough, even if you never have the opportunity to see it. A lengthy storefront at Church Avenue and Dahill Road was…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BAY RIDGE 2024

    by Kevin Walsh March 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 9, 2025 8 comments

    I have many homes. I lived in Flushing for 14 years and have lived in Little Neck for over 17 now. I went to school on the Bedford Stuyvesant-Clinton Hill…

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  • One Shots

    STANTON STREET SHUL

    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 6, 2025 3 comments

    In the winter of 2024-2025 I covered a great deal of the Lower East Side and East Village, on Avenues A through D. Still plagued by age-related back issues, I…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    DIVISION STREET POWERHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025 5 comments

    NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…

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  • One Shots

    WHITESTONE LANES

    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 4, 2025 9 comments

    FORGIVE the relatively poor angle on this shot of Whitestone Lanes, at Whitestone Expressway and Linden Place, technically in Flushing. (It actually looks better by night than by day.) I…

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  • 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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