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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

    OLD PEN AND PENCIL, TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2024 10 comments

    I recently walked much of East and West 45th, which will eventually turn up in an FNY Crosstown page. On the street, I worked for 6 straight years at what…

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  • Subways & Trains

    THE IND ELEVATED

    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 28, 2024 6 comments

    THE only elevated section of the Independent Subway, built by the City of New York in the 1930s to compete with the privately-run IRT and BMT systems, ascends on a…

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  • Signs

    BATTERY CAR SERVICE, CARROLL GARDENS

    by Kevin Walsh August 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 27, 2024 11 comments

    WHILE scuttling through Carroll Gardens en route to Red Hook in August 2024, I noticed this old school sign on Court Street off Luquer, for Battery Car Service. It seems…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    PORT AUTHORITY MOSAIC

    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 26, 2024 4 comments

    JUST outside the turnstiles in the concourse of the 14th Street station on the IND 8th Avenue line (A, C, E trains) there’s a handsomely lettered sign in the black…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    PROSPECT PARK’S HIDDEN ARCH

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

    When I have an opportunity for a weekend off, I take it and am handing over the reins to Sergey today. –Ed. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York Correspondent In 2001…

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  • One Shots

    BAILEY RELIC

    by Kevin Walsh August 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 22, 2024 11 comments

    In May 2024 I walked the length of Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, named for late 1800s landowner Nathaniel Platt Bailey. I never photograph 3072 Bailey Avenue at West 231st…

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  • Ads

    LINDA BARGAIN STORE, WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 21, 2024 2 comments

    TODAY’S “ancient ad” is a bit less ancient that usual on FNY, but it is at least a good 40 years old if not 50. I had gotten off the…

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  • Street Lamps

    CITY LIGHTS HYBRID MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2024 2 comments

    I was plodding along West 23rd Street west of 5th Avenue in June 2024 when I spotted something curious. Over the past 20 years, a new species of lamppost has…

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  • Signs

    A FLUSHING MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 19, 2024 10 comments

    I have been paying more attention to the shingle signs that are found outside doctors’ offices, because some of them are old indeed and have been in place for a…

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  • Alleys

    WELLING COURT, ASTORIA VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2024 6 comments

    ASTORIA Village has suffered greatly from building speculators with large sums of cash in hand. Numerous important houses have been demolished, only to be replaced with large, boxy multi-family dwellings. The…

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  • AdsOut of Town

    UNEEDA, SYRACUSE

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

    If you know where to look, some old Uneeda Biscuit painted ads can still be seen around town, or out of town: in this case, Syracuse. A fire at a…

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  • One Shots

    AT THE EMPHASIS, BAY RIDGE

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

    On a visit to Bay Ridge in June 2024, I got a photo of the Emphasis Diner on 4th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street). It’s in a propitious…

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