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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.

  • Walks

    BROOKLYN TO PARK SLOPE, PART 3

    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 11, 2026 4 comments

    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…

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  • One Shots

    BLAZED TRAIL, WILLOWBROOK

    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 9, 2026 10 comments

    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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  • Street Lamps

    TWIN TYPE F, SUTTON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 8, 2026 2 comments

    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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  • AlleysNeighborhoods

    SANTANDER ALLEY, ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh January 7, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 7, 2026 4 comments

    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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  • Ads

    NEWSPAPERS OF OLD, BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 6, 2026 5 comments

    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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  • Signs

    LANDI’S PORK STORE, EAST FLATBUSH

    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 5, 2026 3 comments

    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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  • Walks

    BROOKLYN HEIGHTS TO PARK SLOPE, PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 4, 2026 7 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    AGES OF INFRASTRUCTURE

    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 2, 2026 2 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    R.I.P. KARL’S KLIPPER BUILDING

    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh January 1, 2026 4 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    BRADLEY TERRACE, SPUYTEN DUYVIL

    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 31, 2025 0 comment

    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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  • Street Lamps

    THE CASTLETON COMBO

    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 29, 2025 3 comments

    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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  • Walks

    BROOKLYN HEIGHTS TO PARK SLOPE

    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2025 7 comments

    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…

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