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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.

  • Signs

    TRES HUEVOS, GRAMERCY PARK

    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2024 6 comments

    A nickname the late radio legend Don Imus gave himself many years ago because he was born with three testicles instead of the usual complement was “Tres Huevos.” I may…

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  • CemeteriesNeighborhoodsWalks

    GLENDALE AND FOREST HILLS

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

    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 all week and my…

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  • Out of TownStreet Lamps

    NEWARK RETRO

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

    I don’t have much to say today except to say my explorations of Newark, NJ have been shamefully few over the years, paling, for example, next to Jersey City or…

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  • One Shots

    PAERDEGAT, EAST FLATBUSH

    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 25, 2024 7 comments

    THERE are no less than 20 place names in Brooklyn named “Paerdegat.” There’s Paerdegat Park, shown here; Paerdegat Basin, which separates the communities of Bergen Beach/Georgetown and Canarsie; Paerdegat Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    OUR LADY OF REFUGE, FLATBUSH

    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 24, 2024 18 comments

    As a kid, I was rather more holy than I am now. For example, I served as an altar boy eons ago at my home parish in Bay Ridge, St.…

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  • One Shots

    SMALLPOX HOSPITAL, ROOSEVELT ISLAND

    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 23, 2024 15 comments

    I was asked to help out a pal with a photo of the ancient Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I realize the last really good batch of photos I obtained…

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  • One ShotsYou'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    STATEN ISLAND MOONSHINERS: CHARLESTON’S “STILL HOUSE”

    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 22, 2024 25 comments

    Guest post PAUL SHARROTTStaten Island Historian I just came across an article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell, published in1956 about him exploring along the southern part of Staten…

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  • Walks

    WALKING IN THE PARK

    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 21, 2024 11 comments

    BACK In September 2022 I took a train to 15th Street/Prospect Park and walked through the park, eventually winding up at Barclays Center. I had been feeling “off” for awhile,…

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  • One Shots

    ENCHANTED VILLAGES OF GREENPOINT

    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 19, 2024 2 comments

    REVISITING a long-gone Forgotten New York item from the dim past, my thoughts turned to the long-vanished Enchant(ed) Villages of Greenpoint, an art installation on Herbert and North Henry near…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BROADWAY TICKER TAPE PLAQUES

    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 17, 2024 15 comments

    NEW York City’s skyline is the envy of the world, a sight tourists travel from across the globe to see. But in some places, its sidewalks are nearly as interesting,…

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  • One Shots

    COFFEY SQUARE, DYKER HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 16, 2024 5 comments

    FOR my item on Fr. Joseph Martusciello Way in Woodhaven the other day, I mentioned that it was unusual to find someone I knew on a city street sign. Here’s…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    BOYCE AVENUE, BAYSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh January 15, 2024 8 comments

    TODAY I’ll mention a street of barely any consequence that I decided to cover while I was meandering around in the neighborhood, Boyce Avenue, one of Queens’ relatively few named…

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