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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

    INSIDE THE RIDGEWOOD DEMOCRATIC CLUB

    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 15, 2025 4 comments

    Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…

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  • One Shots

    BRIDGE WITH THREE NAMES

    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 12, 2025 15 comments

    As this sign at the erstwhile JFK Commuter Plaza…otherwise known as “Queens Plaza”, proclaims, the Queensboro Bridge was “renamed” for popular NYC three-term mayor from 1977-1989, Edward I. Koch, in…

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  • MAP ROOM

    BROOKLYN ROADS 1904

    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 11, 2025 6 comments

    We don’t have time machines. Oh, the changes I’d make if I could go back in time. However, we do have photographs, archives and maps to show us what things…

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  • Alleys

    STIER PLACE RIDGEWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 10, 2025 4 comments

    From FNY’s first Ridgewood page in 2005: In the first decade of the 20th Century Paul Stier built more than 750 houses in Ridgewood under his own name, and after…

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  • One Shots

    WALSH COURT, 1940-1980-2020

    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 9, 2025 5 comments

    THERE’S only one street in NYC officially named Walsh (my name) in NYC, the one-block Walsh Court between East 3rd and 5th (East 4th does not intersect) along the LIRR…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TAINO TOWERS

    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 8, 2025 4 comments

    At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…

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  • Out of TownSubways & Trains

    NEWARK LIGHT RAIL

    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 5, 2025 12 comments

    NEW York City’s subway system is among the world’s largest but is largely stuck in time, like a fly in amber. Because of construction safety precautions, environmental concerns, $$$ and…

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  • One Shots

    CARROLL GARDENS WEATHERVANE

    by Kevin Walsh June 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 3, 2025 9 comments

    As Forgotten NY fans know, I wander the streets with a camera, seeking out bits of unusual infrastructure. I was snooping around Carroll Gardens and Gowanus recently when I spotted…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    LOESER’S BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 2, 2025 6 comments

    THE thousands of subway passengers who pass through the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station daily, catching A, C or G trains, probably take little note of the abandoned side platform, which served shuttle…

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  • Walks

    4TH AVENUE SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh June 1, 2025 5 comments

    BEEN quite awhile since I devoted a page to 4th Avenue in Brooklyn; many years ago, I walked it in Park Slope. That stretch of 4th has changed considerably in…

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  • One Shots

    HELL’S KITCHEN MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 29, 2025 4 comments

    I’M the first to admit when I’m stumped. In early February 2024, I walked 37th Street for my Forgotten NY Crosstown series, but like so many series I have shot…

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  • One Shots

    364 VAN DUZER

    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh May 28, 2025 1 comment

    FOR one, I’m glad Staten Island never got around to seriously numbering its streets. Oh, there’s 1st through 10th in New Dorp but even 5 and 6 are skipped in…

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