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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

    THE MONDRIAN, MIDTOWN EAST

    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 28, 2023 6 comments

    PERHAPS you don’t immediately know the name Piet Mondrian, but you might more readily know his style: unevenly spaced boxes, some filled with color, some without. They have been used in…

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  • Street Lamps

    JFK SWAN LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 27, 2023 3 comments

    IT’S been years since I’ve been on an airplane. I last flew in 2008, to spend a week in San Francisco. I had a ball climbing up the steep hills…

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  • Street Lamps

    CITIGROUP LAMPS

    by Kevin Walsh December 26, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 26, 2023 8 comments

    THE big bruiser at East 53rd and Lexington is the Citicorp Tower (since renamed the Citigroup Center). It was built between 1974 and 1977 and is 914 feet tall; its slanted roof,…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    EAST 6TH STREET, EAST VILLAGE

    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 24, 2023 17 comments

    AFTER a recent series on 6th Avenue, I’m not quite finished with the number six, as a recent walk took me into the East Village down East 6th and 7th…

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  • Trolleys

    DYKER HEIGHTS MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 23, 2023 8 comments

    As I have mentioned previously in Forgotten NY, when I lived in Brooklyn , I used to bicycle all over Brooklyn and several times extended into Queens and as far…

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  • One Shots

    SOON RIP: VAN NOSTRAND HOUSE, LITTLE NECK

    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 22, 2023 4 comments

    THE twin-peaked William Van Nostrand House at Pembroke Avenue and 254th Street was built in the mid-1800s; before it was in the Van Nostrand family it had been owned by Capt.…

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  • Street Necrology

    RIP ORMOND PLACE, BEDFORD-STUYVESANT

    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 20, 2023 7 comments

    On the very same foray in the spring of 2016 in Prospect Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant in which I snapped the old Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of…

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  • One Shots

    RIP IBPOE OF W

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2023 2 comments

    In the spring of 2016 I was teetering around the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street just east of Classon when I spotted this lengthy brown stucco-surfaced building at #1068.…

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  • MAP ROOM

    LOWER MANHATTAN MYSTERY

    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 18, 2023 9 comments

    HERE’S part of a wonderfully detailed Edsall map of lower Manhattan from 1880. I’m sure I’ll return to it again and again for FNY posts; just look at how busy…

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  • Subways & Trains

    HOLIDAY TRAIN 2023

    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 17, 2023 23 comments

    Title card photo by Peter Dougherty, whose Tracks of the NYC Subway’s new edition is available. THIS weekend is particularly busy with holiday stuff and freelance work, so I’ll do…

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  • Alleys

    WASHINGTON PLACE, THRO(G)GS NECK

    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 14, 2023 18 comments

    I have to admit, this one caught me by surprise after almost 25 years doing Forgotten New York. I was doing some Google Maps reconnaissance of Edgewater Park, a private…

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  • Neighborhoods

    ST. RAPHAEL, BLISSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 13, 2023 5 comments

    St. Raphael’s Church, named for an archangel, dominates views from Hunters Point, Blissville, Calvary Cemetery, and Sunnyside. It was built in 1885 here at Greenpoint and Hunters Point Avenues and replaced…

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