Continued from Part 2 HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got…
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.
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BACK at the end of July 2021, when i could still walk long distance without various pains here and there (I’d like to return to those days) I took a…
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A golden oldie from 1999, here’s a Twin Type F lamppost on Sutton Square at the east end of East 58th Street at the East River. The base of this…
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On a recent jaunt in northern Astoria, I took the N train to its northern terminal at Ditmars Boulevard. I found an interesting unofficial alleyway that allows midblock passage for…
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HERE’S a painted ad featuring several Brooklyn newspapers of old, since absorbed into other media, at the Kings Highway N train station. Bay News and Brooklyn Courier were once one…
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WHILE I haven’t been to East Flatbush, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach for several years, when I lived in Brooklyn I was a fairly frequent visitor as it was directly…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got…
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HERE’S a utility pole carrying power lines, telephone lines and cable TV lines, as well as wire devoted to other uses, at 38th Avenue and 57th Street in Woodside. Thousands…
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OPENING the lid on a new year of Forgotten NY in Staten Island in 2026. During my last walk around St. George, Staten Island in January 2025, just over a…
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YET another neighborhood I haven’t been in lately, but with the magic of Google Street View, I can visit anyway. Spuyten Duyvil is the very hilly corner of the Bronx…
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THERE was a time when Staten Island had separate towns, as Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens had before consolidation into Greater New York in 1898. The island was divided into four…
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HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got during a June 2024…
