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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

    GOURMET 45, TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2025 6 comments

    THIS building on the northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and East 45th looms large in my memory. From 1982-1988, I was in the building most nights between 2 and 3…

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    TRACEY AND MOSHOLU

    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 28, 2025 11 comments

    HERE’S a tableau that’ll be familiar to Bronx residents in Norwood and Bedford Park: the Mosholu Parkway and in the background, the Tracey Towers. Mosholu Parkway is among the many…

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    193rd STREET, KINGBRIDGE HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 27, 2025 2 comments

    THIS past May I went on a couple of swings through Kingsbridge Heights along Bailey Avenue and Kingsbridge Terrace, in Kingsbridge Heights, which are positioned on a steep ridge the…

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  • Neighborhoods

    AVENUE B

    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 26, 2025 4 comments

    CONTINUING a series begun on Avenue A earlier in the month, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few…

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  • Street Lamps

    AVENUE D LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2025 3 comments

    I  have not spent much time in East Flatbush lately or even over the years; in fact I used to bicycle through more frequently when I lived in Brooklyn. Once…

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    RUTLAND ROAD, LEFFERTS GARDENS

    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2025 1 comment

    THE west end of Rutland Road in central Brooklyn runs through one of Brooklyn’s most attractive neighborhoods, Lefferts Gardens; indeed the west end is part of a landmarked district, and…

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  • Neighborhoods

    316 BOWERY

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2025 0 comment

    JANUARY 18, 2025 was drab and drizzly, but 45 degrees and I thought I would head out before an expected snowfall and weeklong cold spell. I have wandered up the…

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    UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2025 3 comments

    ALFRED Pancoast Boller (February 23, 1840 – December 9, 1912) was a civil engineer and bridge designer. He was the chief engineer on several bridge building projects during the late…

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  • Walks

    ELDRIDGE STREET

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2025 9 comments

    FOLLOWING Sergey’s piece on the Marty Supreme set on Eldridge Street in December, I thought I would do a quick walk on Eldridge Street and its partner Forsyth, as I…

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  • One Shots

    BRONX IN QUEENS

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2025 6 comments

    MANY New Yorkers cite 1993’s A Bronx Tale, written and acted in by Chazz Palminteri and produced and acted in by Robert De Niro, as their favorite movie. Though A Bronx Tale was…

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    MYERS OF KESWICK

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2025 8 comments

    DRIFTING into James and Karla Murray territory here, I present the storefront of Myers of Keswick at 634 Hudson, founded by Peter Myers, an immigrant from Keswick, England in 1985 after…

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    DEWITT CLINTON GREEN-WOOD

    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 14, 2025 2 comments

    DEWITT Clinton (1769-1828) was a founding father who served as NY State Assemblyman, NYS Senator, NYS Governor, US Senator and NYC Mayor during an illustrious career capped by his indefatigable…

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