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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

    SECRETS OF SIMCHA DAY CAMP

    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh August 7, 2026 6 comments

    In the Orthodox Jewish community of the Five Towns and Rockaways, Simcha Day Camp is among the popular summer choices for boys on account of its sizable campus. The superblock…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    49th ROAD, BOROUGH PARK

    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh August 6, 2026 3 comments

    As Queens residents know, the vast amount of its streets are numbered; in general, Avenues run west to east, while Streets run from north to south. When this system was…

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  • One Shots

    ROSE HILL PARK, FORDHAM

    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh August 5, 2026 0 comment

    THIS sliver of a park at Webster Avenue and East Fordham Road carries a historic name. This small park is a vestige of a far larger estate once called “Rose…

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  • One Shots

    SENECA AVENUE, RIDGEWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh August 4, 2026 2 comments

    QUEENS’ Seneca Avenue is noteworthy as its name can be said to come from two different languages. The official version is that the street was named for one of the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BARBADO(E)S IN ARVERNE

    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh August 2, 2026 4 comments

    New York is filled with Dutch names resulting from its history. On the Rockaway peninsula, Amstel Boulevard takes its name from Amsterdam’s namesake river. Running for five blocks, it can…

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  • One Shots

    WALTON HIGH, KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 31, 2026 4 comments

    WALTON High School, 2790 Reservoir Avenue, was founded as an all-girls high school in 1923, became “co-ed” in 1977 and closed in June 2008. Today the building that housed Walton is…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    HART ISLAND PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2026 2 comments

    By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor CONTINUED FROM PART 1 My first visit to Hart Island occurred in February 2025 through a tour offered by the Parks Department Urban Park Rangers. In…

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  • Out of Town

    BAYLES BUILDING, PORT WASHINGTON

    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 28, 2026 4 comments

    As many Forgotten NY readers know, I have an affinity for Port Washington, NY as I worked in town for 12 years, in two separate stints from 1992-1999 and again…

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  • Ads

    McCANN’S HATS, 2014 BEDFORD-STUYVESANT

    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 27, 2026 1 comment

    I was fooled along with everyone else when, meandering down Marcy Avenue at Madison Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2014, I saw this large painted ad for “McCann’s Hats” on the…

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  • One Shots

    UP THE DAHILL

    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 26, 2026 8 comments

    We need to talk about Dahill Road, if only because it’s been some time since I gave it much thought. But on the Brooklyn street map, it’s fairly important. When…

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  • Neighborhoods

    EAST OF ARVERNE

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2026 0 comment

    OVER the years, this site has documented many former firehouses repurposed as offices and residences. Usually the reason for their closing was in favor of a new firehouse nearby that…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    THIS WAY TO MANHATTAN

    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2026
    by Kevin Walsh July 24, 2026 1 comment

    In a situation that fairly ridicules work rules at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, you definitely know what platform to stand on to get to Manhattan at the Fort Hamilton Parkway…

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