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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.

  • Neighborhoods

    DAGGER JOHN, LITTLE ITALY

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

    On this Ash Wednesday (and St. Valentine’s Day), let’s visit one of NYC’s oldest Catholic churches at Mulberry and Prince Streets in Little Italy. Old St. Patrick’s is called “old”…

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  • SignsSubways & Trains

    GRAND CENTRAL MADISON QUOTES

    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 13, 2024 6 comments

    GRAND Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal beneath the main terminal serving Metro-North rains, opened in early 2023 after about 20 years of construction. It’s truly vast,…

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  • One Shots

    CLEVELAND PLACE, LITTLE ITALY

    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 12, 2024 4 comments

    LOOKING south on Cleveland Place from Kenmare Street. Cleveland Place was renamed from Marion Street to honor President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), who had been Governor of NYS, toward the domed former NYPD…

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  • Alleys

    ONE AND DONE, PART ONE

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

    I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…

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  • One Shots

    SO LONG VILLAGE CIGARS

    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 8, 2024 6 comments

    No, the scene shown here is hardly Forgotten–it’s iconic and emblematic of the Village and has been seen by millions, New York natives and visitors alike. It does have its…

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  • Neighborhoods

    NORTHFIELD TOWNSHIP DISTRICT SCHOOL — PS 20

    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 7, 2024 4 comments

    In a borough quickly eradicating much of its historic legacy, no Staten Island neighborhood is preserving as much of its past as Port Richmond…if only from pure inertia, as it…

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  • Out of Town

    GOLD STREET

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2024 2 comments

    TWO decades ago while meandering about  in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…

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  • Ads

    BAAR AND BEARDS, GARMENT DISTRICT

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2024 6 comments

    I am going to make a confession. I have been listening to recorded music for a long time, from the time I was a toddler watching the wax spin on…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    GLENDALE-FOREST HILLS, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2024 4 comments

    CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home…

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  • One Shots

    RIIS TRIANGLE, RICHMOND HILL

    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh February 1, 2024 3 comments

    LIKE a favorite book or movie that you reread or rewatch, there are some NYC neighborhoods I return to again and again because there are infrastructural or historical aspects I…

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  • One Shots

    KEITH’S RICHMOND HILL

    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 31, 2024 6 comments

    RICHMOND Hill preserves its very own classic movie palace of yore… and this one has a marquee that has at least retained the look it had in its halcyon days,…

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  • Street Lamps

    QUEENSBORO BRIDGE LAMP 2024

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

    IT’S one of a kind…but it used to be two of a kind. Back in 1998, I (nearly) panicked when this copper-clad, vertigris’ed lamppost at the eastbound Queensboro Bridge entrance…

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