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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.

  • One Shots

    ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH, CITY HALL

    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 27, 2023 6 comments

    St. Andrew’s Church was consecrated here on Duane Street behind the Municipal Building in 1939, replacing an earlier church named Carroll Hall built in 1842. Just before the Civil War…

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  • Neighborhoods

    MEATPACKING 2023

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

    I was once again drawn like a magnet to the Meatpacking District on Greenwich Village’s far west side, which is one of those neighborhoods that has been reinvented twice over…since…

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  • Street LampsSubways & Trains

    BMT LIGHTING…RIGHT AND WRONG

    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 24, 2023 5 comments

    As I’ve learned from decades of experience, there’s the right way to do things, and there’s the wrong way (of which I freely admit my occasional guilt) which is usually…

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  • One Shots

    SLOANE BUILDING, PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 22, 2023 6 comments

    On a visit to see the remodeled Penn Station LIRR corridor in February 2023, I was meandering around the area when this tall brick building on West 34th just off…

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  • One Shots

    BOSCOBEL PLACE, HIGH BRIDGE

    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 21, 2023 14 comments

    A short lane abutting Bridge Park connects Undercliff and University Avenues near the spaghetti ramps connecting the Cross Bronx and Major Deegan Expressways just south of Washington Bridge spanning the…

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  • One Shots

    BOWNE STATIONERS, SEAPORT

    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 20, 2023 4 comments

    BOWNE & Co. Stationers at 211 Water Street is a working job print shop as well as a department of the South Street Seaport Museum. It was one of the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    LIBERTY’S FOUNDATION … FORT WOOD

    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 18, 2023 15 comments

    Ed. note: I haven’t been to the Statue of Liberty since a Cub Scout trip in 1965, and I remember exactly nothing, but Sergey has been there a bit more…

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  • Alleys

    RED HOOK LANE, DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 17, 2023 4 comments

    RED Hook Lane, in Downtown Brooklyn, can be added to the list of New York City streets that are nowhere near the locations they are named for, joining routes like…

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  • Neighborhoods

    THORNE (THORNS) LANE, RIVERDALE

    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 16, 2023 7 comments

    NONPAVED roads are now quite rare in NYC, but I have one all the way in the north end of Riverdale in the Bronx, between Spender and Huxley Avenues south…

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  • One Shots

    A COUPLE MORE DAYS OFF

    by Kevin Walsh November 12, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 12, 2023 21 comments

    I am skipping the Sunday page this week and will probably not resume for a couple of days as I have had a severe sciatica attack that put me in…

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  • Alleys

    MEET ME AT VINE AND MCKENNY, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2023 6 comments

    My fascination of the narrow strip along Old Fulton Street where Brooklyn Heights meets DUMBO is ever-engrossing for me, as it has breathtaking views of Manhattan and interesting brick-dominated architecture.…

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  • Ads

    LOFTS FOR RENT, PENN STATION

    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh November 8, 2023 3 comments

    HERE’S an ancient painted ad that has been there for many years and went unnoticed by me until was walking east on West 33rd Street and noticed it via an…

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