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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.

  • Signs

    METROPOLITAN SOCIETY OF KARDAMYLIANS, BAY RIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2024 0 comment

    WHEN in Bay Ridge in spring 2024 I was inching my way down 3rd Avenue when I spotted this venerable sign for the Metropolitan Society of Kardamylians at #7919. According…

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  • One Shots

    CABLE-STAYED AT THE ROCK

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2024 3 comments

    ROCKEFELLER University’s pedestrian cable-stayed bridge, designed by Weidlinger Associates, connects the university’s south campus and residence halls, spanning busy East 63rd Street, which here is an on and off ramp…

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  • Signs

    R.I.P. SMITH’S BAR, HELL’S KITCHEN

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2024 13 comments

    WORD comes that Smith’s Bar, the longtime dive with the fantastical neon signs on 8th Avenue and West 44th has gone the way of the dodo and will soon be…

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  • One Shots

    INSIDE THE ONDERDONK

    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 26, 2024 9 comments

    I have shown the exterior of the Van Der Ende-Onderdonk House at Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues on the undefended Brooklyn and Queens boundary a number of times on FNY, so…

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  • MAP ROOM

    LOST TOWNS, 1905

    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 25, 2024 6 comments

    EVEN after Greater New York was founded in 1905, southern Brooklyn and much of Queens, Bronx and Staten Island was farmland if not open country, dotted here and there with…

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  • Street Scenes

    BEDFORD STREET 2024

    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2024 3 comments

    In October I took advantage of the preternaturally balmy and clear weather (Central Park recorded .01″ of rain the entire month) and walked through Chelsea and The West Village, catching…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MISSING MOSAICS, FLUSHING MEADOWS

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2024 3 comments

    I took a stroll in Flushing Meadows in September 2024 and noted the absolutely decrepit conditions of the sidewalk mosaic medallions located surrounding Dinkins Plaza at the park’s entrance at…

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  • One Shots

    SITE OF BAY RIDGE LANES, SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2024 3 comments

    HERE’S the Fei Long Market on 8th Avenue between 63rd and 64th Street. If you’re of a certain age you recall 8th Avenue and 64th Street for the 2001 Odyssey…

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  • Roads

    LOST ROADS OF WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2024 4 comments

    THOUGH most of Queens’ streets, except lengthy main roads such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, etc. were numbered beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, some outmoded names continued to show…

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  • Cemeteries

    SPENCERS-LORILLARDS, GREEN-WOOD

    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 19, 2024 5 comments

    CEMETERIES have been popular ForgottenTour locales over the years; the inhabitants tend to be quiet, so my narration goes uninterrupted. FNY has visited the cemeteries of central Queens, both downtown…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MIDTOWN BY NIGHT, 2018

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2024 11 comments

    As some know, I have “found a home” (as much as I find any workplace “home”) at biographical publisher Marquis Who’s Who, where I format and edit biographies, working at…

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  • Forgotten SlicesNeighborhoods

    TOURO TIMES SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2024 4 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In Manhattan, open space is nearly nonexistent, with the sky as its frontier for growth. Universities on this island with vertical campuses include CUNY’s Baruch…

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