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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.

  • Subways & Trains

    CONNECTING RAILROAD TRACKS, DUMBO

    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 30, 2024 5 comments

    On December 31, 2023 I ventured into DUMBO, north of downtown Brooklyn, a formerly chiefly industrial region now a hotbed of expensive residences, retail and even a branch of the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    54TH STREET BRIDGE, TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 29, 2024 0 comment

    As Forgotten NY readers know I am an infrastructure buff and FNY is at its heart an infrastructure blog, so when something like a new pedestrian bridge opens, I’m usually…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BRONX DECO

    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 28, 2024 11 comments

    Your boy is laid up with sciatica this week, so it’s Sergey Time as FNY’s correspondent checks in with some Bronx Art Deco buildings. By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent HAVING…

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  • One Shots

    WILLAMSBURG(H) LIBRARY

    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 25, 2024 3 comments

    In 1901, the Scottish philanthropist/industrialist Andrew Carnegie Foundation gave $5.2 million to New York City for its libraries across the five boroughs. This started a remarkable project that would go…

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  • Street Lamps

    THE WILLIAMSBURGS

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

    IT’S been donkey’s years since I’ve done an in-depth look at the lamps I call The Williamsburgs, or The Willies for short. They are colored blue (no other NYC lamppost…

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  • One Shots

    FILLMORE’S OF FLUSHING

    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 23, 2024 8 comments

    IT’S been a few years (April 2021) since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th Avenue and 166th Street near Queens College. It’s a…

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  • One Shots

    TRIANGLE SPORTS, 2024

    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 22, 2024 10 comments

    FLATBUSH Avenue cuts across the Park Slope grid on a diagonal, making it a convenient place to put a subway line and indeed, two separate subway lines employ it, the…

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  • Walks

    NEVINS ON SUNDAY, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 21, 2024 5 comments

    Continued from Part One On Sunday, March 17, 2024 I meandered around the Gowanus area and wound up walking the length of Nevins Street, which runs from Carroll Street to Flatbush Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    ELIOT AVENUE, MIDDLE VILLAGE

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

    ELIOT Avenue, seen here at Lutheran Avenue and 75th Street, roars through Middle Village as one of the few continuous auto northeast routes through the neighborhood. It connects Metropolitan Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    SHIRTTAIL ROW, MASPETH

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

    THIS grouping of attached two-story residences found on 59th Drive between Fresh Pond Road and 64th Street, opposite the Rieff Playground, was built as workers’ houses of the Sampson’s Oil…

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  • Street Lamps

    BELL VARIANT, PARK SLOPE

    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 17, 2024 1 comment

    OVER the past decade or so, a new variant on the Bell lamp fixture theme has been popping up on Brooklyn streets. I haven’t noticed them yet in any other…

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  • One Shots

    EAGLE AND DESIDERATA, PARK SLOPE

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2024 10 comments

    WAY back in 2011 I walked Union Street all the way from the waterfront in Carroll Gardens to Prospect Park; I haven’t yet made my way to where Union Street…

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