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…
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.
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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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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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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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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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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 WalshGuest 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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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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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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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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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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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…
