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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.

  • Neighborhoods

    BLEECKER STREET

    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 16, 2024 5 comments

    BLEECKER STREET, often misspelled without its “c”, was named for William Bleecker, a friend of Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryant, who was a writer himself: a renowned punster, his work appeared in several…

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  • Walks

    CENTRE STREET

    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 15, 2024 7 comments

    EARLY December 2023 was mild, in the 50s and 60s, foretelling a winter that was milder than usual…again. In the era of climate change, no winter has been below normal…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    VICTORY BOULEVARD ARCHITECTURE

    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 12, 2024 4 comments

    BACK in 2019, I walked Victory Boulevard from Clove Road to the Staten Island Expressway as part of a walk that clocked in at over 9 miles. It was intended…

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  • Cemeteries

    RENWICKS AND FLORENCE

    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 11, 2024 0 comment

    I recently went on a jaunt in Green-Wood Cemetery for the first time in a few years, and I’ll likely do a full page eventually; I plan another visit in…

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  • One Shots

    MOORE STREET RETAIL MARKET

    by Kevin Walsh September 10, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 10, 2024 2 comments

    THE Moore Street Retail Market in East Williamsburg is a LaGuardia-era establishment on Humboldt Street, stretching from Moore to Varet Streets. Filled with produce vendors, small food stalls, crafts-makers and…

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  • One Shots

    PS 15, STAPLETON

    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 9, 2024 6 comments

    QUITE a few years have passed since I strode Van Duzer Street and St. Paul’s Avenue in Stapleton. Of late I have been revisiting locales where I have not been…

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  • Walks

    UPPER 5TH AVENUE 2024

    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 8, 2024 7 comments

    Continued from Part 1 5th Avenue in Brooklyn is merely one of a sequence of numbered avenues in western Brooklyn that run from 1st to 28th Avenues. While some like…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    MOOSE ARE LOOSE IN QUEENS

    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 5, 2024 6 comments

    THE Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in Louisville, KY in 1888 by Dr. John Henry Wilson. The organization was tainted by racism for its first few…

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  • Signs

    EWB WHO? OWL’S HEAD PARK

    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 4, 2024 7 comments

    THE iron fence at Owl’s Head Park in Bay Ridge is inscribed with the letters EWB. What, or who, do these letters refer to? Owls Head Park is Bay Ridge’s…

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  • Signs

    GOVERNORS ISLAND SIGNAGE

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

    HAVING roamed Governors Island for the first time in a few years, my mission was to pay attention to the older infrastructure. I first stopped on the island at Christmas…

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  • One Shots

    GOLDEN LADY, PORT MORRIS

    by Kevin Walsh September 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 2, 2024 6 comments

    NOT that I would know, but one comment on the Flickr page where I got this image of the Golden Lady strip club at Bruckner Boulevard and East 133rd in…

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  • SignsWalks

    5th AVENUE PARK SLOPE, 2024

    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh September 1, 2024 6 comments

    RETURNING to a well-worn route in my experience, 5th Avenue. Five happens to be my favorite number for some reason, as I have spent considerable time on 5th Avenue. Not…

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