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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.

  • Forgotten Slices

    LGA’S CONTROL TOWER GARDEN

    by Kevin Walsh August 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 30, 2025 6 comments

    HAVING documented the preservation of original hangars from 1939 at LaGuardia Airport and public artworks inside the new Terminal B, there is also an outdoor garden with sculptures evoking the…

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  • Signs

    BOOKMAN SWASH, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2025 5 comments

    BEING a type guy, I noticed this sign for New York Spa and Sauna as I was scuttling north on 149th Street at Northern Boulevard recently. I noticed it was…

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  • Roads

    SINGULAR STREET DESIGNATIONS

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2025 9 comments

    As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…

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  • Signs

    GRAND CLEANERS, WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh August 27, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 27, 2025 1 comment

    I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…

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  • Street LampsSubways & Trains

    PLATFORM LAMPS SHEEPSHEAD BAY

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2025 3 comments

    FOLLOWING a relative period of inactivity due to various ailments, I have been gradually getting back into the swing and visiting realms where I haven’t appeared in recent years. One…

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  • One Shots

    “NEW” FIRE ALARMS

    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 25, 2025 4 comments

    NEW York City’s fire alarms evolved greatly over the nearly 125 years they have been street corner staples. They seem to be the one Beaux Arts designed street fixtures that…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    REMAINS: BRONX ZOO SKYFARI

    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 23, 2025 6 comments

    THE city’s many transportation options include bikes, boats, buses, subways, railroads, and the Roosevelt Island Tramway. The last item is the only aerial cable car in the city but not…

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  • One Shots

    KRIGER BAR AND GRILL

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

    FOR my next “ForgottenTour Indoors” (this past week there was a well-received Zoom tour called FNY By the Seashore” in which I presented some out-of-the-way waterside communities like Dead Horse…

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  • One Shots

    CATHEDRAL OF ASPHALT

    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2025 4 comments

    My forays into Manhattan’s Upper East Side have been shamefully few; only a handful of times in the 26+ years and counting of Forgotten New York. That’s why I was…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BUSHWICK MYSTERIES

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2025 5 comments

    I was slouching down Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick in early May enjoying the mild conditions before dreaded heat and humidity would set in the next month. Various images from this…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    OVAL OF GLEN OAKS

    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2025 0 comment

    FOR centuries, the constructed circle in Salisbury Plain that is Stonehenge has puzzled the public on its meaning and purpose. The culture that built it more than 5,000 years ago…

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  • One Shots

    THE LAST OLIVE RIP

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2025 4 comments

    FORGIVE me for being behind the times, but that’s nothing new. I was puttering around Forest Hills this past weekend with two quarries in mind: get a photo of Forest…

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