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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

    DODGERTOWN, AND OTHER BROOKLYN HOUSING

    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh November 2, 2024 9 comments

    DURING the past week for my weekly item in SpliceToday I wrote about Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field remnants in Brooklyn. The Dodgers won their 8th World Series and became…

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  • Signs

    COLUMBUS PIZZA, ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 31, 2024 4 comments

    HERE’S a shot from the descending staircase at 31st Street and Astoria Boulevard at the elevated train serving the N and sometimes W. The elevated was built and opened in…

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  • One Shots

    A GLIMPSE OF VICTORY

    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 30, 2024 14 comments

    VICTORY Boulevard, one of Staten Island’s longest roads, has a history that goes back to a 19th Century US Vice President. The village of Tompkinsville, founded by a future Vice…

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  • One Shots

    NEW UTRECHT IN DAYLIGHT

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

    THREE blocks of New Utrecht Avenue are uncovered by an elevated train. When riding the buses all over southern Brooklyn as a kid, I was on the B35 one day…

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  • Signs

    GOLDEN DRAGON, BOROUGH PARK

    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 28, 2024 4 comments

    PRIOR to my visit to the NY Sign Museum, I found a good one at the beginning of a walk that took me into Borough Park, Windsor Terrace and Park…

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  • Signs

    NEW YORK SIGN MUSEUM, EAST NEW YORK

    by Kevin Walsh October 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 27, 2024 8 comments

    FOR years, one of my ambitions has been to visit Cincinnati. Not for the strange chili or to take in a Reds or Bengals game. It was to visit Todd…

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  • One Shots

    HANAN SHOE FACTORY, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2024 1 comment

    In December 2023 I entered Brooklyn for the first time in what I estimate was three years, a borough I lived in for 35 years; Covid-19 and then a succession…

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  • One Shots

    FATE OF THE FAIR MOSAICS

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2024 10 comments

    A recent jaunt took me into Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, where I noticed that the set of pavement mosaics installed honoring the first and second Fairs were in worse shape than…

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  • Signs

    SIGN REPLACEMENT, LITTLE NECK

    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2024 3 comments

    WHEN I stepped outdoors for a bit of fresh air in this October of perpetual sunshine and 75 degrees, I didn’t expect to get the pleasant surprise that I got.…

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  • One Shots

    NEW LOTS TOWN HALL

    by Kevin Walsh October 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 21, 2024 10 comments

    NOT too many of Kings County’s or any other boroughs’ town halls remain. The history of Kings County’s towns is complicated… but the $2 history is: The county’s original towns were Brooklyn (today’s…

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  • Walks

    TREMONT AVENUE PART THREE

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

    Continued from Part Two In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the…

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  • One Shots

    WARBASSE HOUSES, CONEY ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2024 4 comments

    As the trestle carrying the Culver Line elevated train (F), over Neptune Avenue, the Amalgamated Dr. James Peter Warbasse Houses loom up in the background. The co-op apartments were built by United Housing Foundation and the…

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