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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

    HAWTREE MYSTERY, HOWARD BEACH

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2024 9 comments

    SATURDAY, April 13, 2024 wasn’t a banner day for Forgotten NY, as I had planned an expedition to Howard Beach. The Q53 crawled along despite a dedicated bus lane on…

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  • Walks

    NEVINS ON SUNDAY, PART ONE

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2024 5 comments

    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 in the…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    MURRAY HILL BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 11, 2024 7 comments

    IT’S happening. Slowly, almost inexorably. But it’s happening and it’s getting more and more noticeable by the day. Yes, once again, I am getting interested in NYC’s railroad pedestrian crossings.…

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  • Neighborhoods

    SECRET OF BARTHOLDI, WILLIAMSBRIDGE

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

    A pair of streets called Magenta and Bartholdi can be found south of East Gun Hill Road and east of White Plains Road in Williamsbridge. On the face of it,…

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  • Trolleys

    TROLLEY POLE, SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2024 3 comments

    THERE are a number of iron poles that supported trolley wires scattered around NYC, especially in Brooklyn, where I can locate about a dozen or so. Here is one found…

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  • MAP ROOM

    STREETS OF SUNNYSIDE, 1920

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2024 3 comments

    HERE’S a map excerpt I found at a NY Transit Museum exhibition of subway maps in early 2020; it shows the Corona (now the Flushing) and Astoria lines under construction.…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    RIIS’S PIECES

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2024 9 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent FLATBUSH Avenue is not the longest road in Brooklyn (Bedford Avenue edges it out) but it comes close to the record on its lengthy route…

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  • One Shots

    CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION, MADISON SQUARE

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2024 4 comments

    THERE are a couple of interesting churches around town named for the Transfiguration, an incident described in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in which Jesus reveals His divinity…

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  • Street Scenes

    SOUTH STREET RELIC

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2024 5 comments

    WELL, you don’t see too many of these any more. I’d estimate there are approximately 25 or 30 at the most of these curved-mast octagonal shaft lampposts around town, with…

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  • Subways & Trains

    BOROUGH HALL PLAQUES

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2024 0 comment

    FOR the subway signage buffs, the Borough Hall (Brooklyn) station presents unique opportunities to see various station identification methods over the years. For a number of years in the 1970s…

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  • One Shots

    PARIS CAFE, SEAPORT

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2024 2 comments

    THE South Street Seaport has lost many of its mainstays during the 21st Century…the restaurants Sloppy Louie’s and Sweet’s; the Fulton Fish Market itself, which moved to Hunts Point in…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SPRING AND RENWICK, SOHO

    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh March 31, 2024 2 comments

    JUST a quick one this week, as I will be occupied much of Easter Sunday and I am busy assembling the FNY 25th anniversary event presentation scheduled for Thursday, April…

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