As I recounted on FNY’s Avenue A, Manhattan page recently… Southern Brooklyn uses the Flatbush Town Plan, which was also employed in parts of Flatlands and Gravesend, with east-west lettered avenues…
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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DYER Avenue, seen here from West 38th Street, is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten New York item, as it’s one of the most car-trafficked roads in New York City.…
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SOME years ago, Kevin Walsh visited Haight Street in Flushing, comparing the sights of this obscure two-block road in an industrial corner of the neighborhood, with the scenic Haight Street…
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To the Forgotten NY archives we again go, this time to November, 2015, in what turned out to be my last ride on the venerable John F. Kennedy Staten Island…
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DEEP in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, along a path between Dinkins Circle and the Unisphere, is NYC Parks’ equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys from TV’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”…
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A weakness of the Queens street numbering system devised by Charles U. Powell of the Queens Topographic Bureau in the 1910s was that in order to keep east-west and north-south…
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DEEP into the Forgotten New York archives we go, to September 2017, when I staggered out of Prospect Park onto the streets of Lefferts Gardens and I found this sign…
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FOUR of the five NYC boroughs have lettered streets, though only Brooklyn carries the idea all the way through. As far as lettered streets go in the USA, Washington, DC’s…
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From the Forgotten NY archives from 2016… In 2017, Forgotten NY covered the newest station on the Staten Island Railway, Arthur Kill, which was built between the former Atlantic and…
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If you recall, last week Forgotten NY presented a photo of ancient Staten Island street signs I discovered in Tottenville at Jacob(s) Street and Bedell Avenue in 1999. I had…
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In 2009, Forgotten New York walked Division Street, one of Manhattan’s most unremarked-on thoroughfares. It hasn’t gotten much respect over the centuries and decades, either — it’s reduced to less…
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CLOSING out yet another year, Forgotten New York’s 25th, today I will mention Sazon Nuñez Corp. at Wyckoff and DeKalb Avenues, conveniently located at the DeKalb Avenue L train station.…
