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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.

  • Street Lamps

    CUPLIGHT, BELMONT

    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 12, 2023 4 comments

    WHAT I have today is possibly the last specimen of what lamppost aficionados (all 14 of us) call the Cuplight, as it’s shaped like an inverted coffee cup with a…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    WATCHOGUE ROAD, WESTERLEIGH

    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 11, 2023 18 comments

    EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…

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  • Walks

    DEEP SIXTH, VOLUME THREE

    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 10, 2023 9 comments

    Continued from Part 2 IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in…

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  • One Shots

    FURMAN STREET, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 9, 2023 4 comments

    HERE’S a look at Furman Street from the Brooklyn Bridge. It runs nearly uninterrupted along the East River from Atlantic Avenue north to Old Fulton Street. It sits at the…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    JUAN TRIPPE, GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 7, 2023 5 comments

    BEFORE revisiting Green-Wood Cemetery, where I haven’t been since the pandemic, I’m going over some highlights presented from past tours. It’s rather serendipitous that the founder of a major airline…

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  • CemeteriesOne Shots

    LEONARD BERNSTEIN, GREENWOOD CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 6, 2023 5 comments

    (No, he’s not forgotten, don’t quibble) EVEN the casual classical music fan knows the name Leonard Bernstein, especially if you’re over fifty. In the swinging Sixties, his “Young People’s Concerts”…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SCANDIA HALL, SUNSET PARK

    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 5, 2023 9 comments

    TODAY, Sunset Park, located fairly neatly between the Brooklyn waterfront, 10th Avenue/Fort Hamilton Parkway, 39th and 65th Streets, is divided fairly neatly between a Latino/Hispanic section nearer the water and…

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  • Subways & Trains

    M3 CARS, LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD

    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 4, 2023 12 comments

    UNTIL just recently, M3 electric-powered rail cars employed on the Long Island Rail Road, were still in use as delivery of new M9 cars was delayed. (As MTA subway cars…

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  • Walks

    DEEP SIXTH, VOLUME TWO

    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh December 3, 2023 9 comments

    IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in the Bedroom,”…

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  • One Shots

    HOLLAND AVENUE, HAMMELS

    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 30, 2023 9 comments

    BEACH 90th Street is a station on the A train in the Rockaways, the first on the line after it crosses Jamaica Bay en route to Rockaway Park at Beach…

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  • Ads

    CHRISTMAS COKE

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2023 12 comments

    I was meandering in Rockaway Park in December 2016 and, when outside Boardwalk Bagel and Delicatessen, found what appeared to be a pair of vintage ads. One showed a Coke…

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  • Subways & Trains

    ORIGINAL CANAL

    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 28, 2023 2 comments

    WANT to check out some NYC history but don’t want to ferret it out in a museum? Ride the subway instead. This plaque, designed by Jay Van Everen and located…

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