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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

    NOONAN PLAZA, HIGHBRIDGE HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 2, 2024 13 comments

    “ONE shot” just doesn’t do justice to the Noonan Plaza Apartments in hilly Highbridge Heights. Noonan Plaza, West 168th from Nelson west to Ogden, is architect Horace Ginsbern creation second…

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  • One Shots

    SOHMER PIANO, ASTORIA

    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh October 1, 2024 7 comments

    VERNON Boulevard’s most venerable structure may be the former Sohmer Piano factory, 11-31 Vernon at 31st Avenue. I first encountered the building several years ago when it was still occupied by the…

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  • Cemeteries

    ST. RAYMOND’S, MIDDLETOWN

    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 30, 2024 6 comments

    TWO vast cemeteries are associated with St. Raymond’s Church in Westchester Square and are operated by the Catholic Diocese of New York. Old St. Raymond’s,  located roughly between Waterbury Avenue, Bruckner Expressway,…

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  • Walks

    FLUSHING MEADOWS 2024

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2024 8 comments

    In September 2024 I had to take shorter walks because a chronic sore back condition arose, and my journeys totaled 4 miles or less. Thus things were near “perfect” for…

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  • Signs

    IDEAL GLASS, EAST VILLAGE 2020

    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 26, 2024 1 comment

    SADLY, this painted sidewalk sign for glazier Ideal Glass at #20-22 East 2nd Street near 2nd Avenue (that’s a lot of “2”‘s) has been painted over, giving the space a…

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  • One Shots

    HOWARD JOHNSON, FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 25, 2024 19 comments

    WHEN I lived in eastern Flushing from 1993-2007, I didn’t recognize this structure on the Flushing-Auburndale border at Northern Boulevard and 165th Street for the artifact it was. At the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ELM TOWERS, LONG ISLAND CITY

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

    HERE’S a handsome Tudor-ish apartment complex at 30th Drive and 29th Street in Long Island City. Though eastern Queens can sometimes resemble Nassau County, with shady residential streets and wide,…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    TEMPERANCE VILLAGE, PARK SLOPE

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

    It turns out that Brooklyn had a “dry” or alcohol-free town decades before Staten Island’s Prohibition Park, now known as Westerleigh. While Prohibition Park was established in 1887 and strictly…

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  • Walks

    HUMBOLDT STREET, EAST WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 22, 2024 16 comments

    In May 2023, I walked Humboldt Street’s near-entire length, from Flushing Avenue north to Greenpoint Avenue. In many ways it’s the north-south axis of East Williamsburg. I remember my very…

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  • One Shots

    NATHAN HALE COURT, PROSPECT HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2024 2 comments

    NATHAN Hale Court is one of a number of apartment houses on Eastyern Parrkway near Franklin Avenue with patriotic names; the Thomas Jefferson is nearby. The name Nathan Hale is synonymous with…

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  • One Shots

    WEDGE BUILDING, NOHO

    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 19, 2024 0 comment

    I have always had a fascination for the structure in the wedge of territory between Lafayette and Mulberry where they meet Bleecker. Right now the building comes to one of…

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  • Subways & Trains

    CEDARHURST CUTOFF, ROSEDALE

    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 17, 2024 2 comments

    STREET patterns can tell you a great deal about the characteristics of a neighborhood. For one thing, they call out the spirits of railroads past. We have already seen the…

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