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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

    FEITSEN’S DRUGS, FLUSHING

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

    HERE’S a 1930s look at Feitsen’s Drug Store in the 1930s, on 45th Avenue and 147th Street. Out of the picture across the street are Parsons Boulevard and Flushing Hospital…

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  • Walks

    KISSENA PARK CORRIDOR 2024

    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 30, 2024 11 comments

    IT was time to “call an audible” as they say in football, when the quarterback decides to change the play at scrimmage when the defense is lined up to defend…

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  • One Shots

    SHERIDAN AND STONEWALL, GREENWICH VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 27, 2024 3 comments

    TWO very different eras of American history appear side by side in Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village. 7th Avenue South was created in the 1910s by the extension of the…

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  • One Shots

    HUGH O’NEILL’S, LADIES MILE

    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 26, 2024 3 comments

    WHO is Hugh O’Neill, and why is his name on this building high above Sixth Avenue and 22nd Street? Back in the good old days, circa 1900, Hugh O’Neill owned the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    ENGINE CO. 65, MIDTOWN

    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 25, 2024 5 comments

    In an area rich with architectural gems like the Yale Club, General Society of Mechanics and tradesmen and the Algonquin Hotel, all on West 44th, FDNY Engine Company #56, a…

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  • One Shots

    AMERICAN BEVERAGE, WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh June 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 24, 2024 11 comments

    On a rare clear weekend day in February, I strolled through Williamsburg, a neighborhood I have had a hard time getting a handle on as it is ever-changing; when I…

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  • Neighborhoods

    NEW SEAPORT-LOWER EAST SIDE QUICK WALK

    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 23, 2024 14 comments

    FEBRUARY 18, 2024 was actually looking wintery around town, as we had just wrapped up a couple of snowfalls, rare in NYC winters of late, and it was a sunny,…

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  • One Shots

    HESS-MILLER FUNERAL HOME, MIDDLE VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 21, 2024 9 comments

    In the running for the most attractive building on Metropolitan Avenue‘s 14-mile length from Williamsburg to Jamaica is the Hess-Miller Funeral Home at 65th Street. Its location is no coincidence,…

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  • One Shots

    CHERRY STREET ARCH

    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 20, 2024 10 comments

    I have always been fascinated by the massive masonry arches (that cover a steel framework) that pop up around town. Probably the greatest concentration is in Astoria, where a series…

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  • Signs

    CONSERVATION PLUMBING, PARK SLOPE

    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 19, 2024 8 comments

    BACK in April 2024, I walked 5th Avenue in Park Slope, since I haven’t done so in a few years. Recently, I’ve been more drawn to commercial strips because of…

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  • EatsOne ShotsSigns

    ROEBLING PIZZA, WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2024 2 comments

    MUCH to my regret I was unable to partake at Roebling Pizza at #324 Roebling between South 8th and 9th in Williamsburg simply because I was scuttling past like a…

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  • One Shots

    34th STREET ALARM

    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh June 17, 2024 5 comments

    PERIODICALLY, I check on my favorite bits of infrastructure around town and sometimes I’m disappointed, like when I saw the Twinlamp at 5th Avenue and 28th Street had disappeared. Well,…

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