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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

    STEELE HOUSE, CLINTON HILL

    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 24, 2023 2 comments

    It’s hard to nail down my favorite building in Clinton Hill but there’s a good chance that it’s the Joseph Steele House, #200 Lafayette Avenue at Vanderbilt, one of the…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    ATLANTIC AVENUE BOAT

    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 23, 2023 11 comments

    In downtown Brooklyn, Flatbush, Atlantic Avenue, and 4th Avenue all come together at a triangle called Times Plaza after a newspaper, long defunct, that had its offices nearby. In 1908…

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  • Subways & Trains

    BACK AT THE HIGH LINE, AGAIN

    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 22, 2023 9 comments

    I have always been fascinated with the High Line (or High Line Park), the linear park opened in stages beginning in 2009 on what was built in 1934 as the…

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  • One Shots

    MILLARD FILLMORE’S, FRESH MEADOWS

    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 20, 2023 19 comments

    THIS is not a paid commercial of any kind, but it’s been a couple of years since I have been in one of my favorite joints, Millard Fillmore’s on 65th…

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  • One Shots

    DEVOE PARK, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 19, 2023 7 comments

    DEVOE Park occupies an uneven plot surrounded by West Fordham Road, Webb Avenue, Father Zeiser Place and University Avenue. Curving Fr. Zeiser Place, once a part of West 188th Street, follows…

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    ORIGINAL HALL OF FAME, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh October 18, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 18, 2023 13 comments

    THE Bronx’ very own Hall of Fame predates the sports halls of fame in Cooperstown, NY, Canton, OH and Springfield, MA. There are halls of fame for rock and roll,…

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  • One Shots

    SLOANE RANGER, LENOX HILL

    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 17, 2023 5 comments

    WHAT could this handsome carriage house at #159 East 69th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue have to do with the former Serval Zipper factory, now a U-Haul distributorship on…

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    AL SMITH, CALVARY CEMETERY

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

    AL SMITH (1873-1944), is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, Queens. He was Governor of New York State for four two-year terms (elected in 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1926) and the…

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  • Street Scenes

    REMEMBER THESE GOLDEN CLASSICS, PART TWO

    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 15, 2023 7 comments

    Continued from Part 1 PLENTY of people say never look back, only look forward. I have never heeded that advice. I’m always replaying events, both good and bad; I remember…

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  • One Shots

    BAY STREET, ROSEBANK

    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2023 9 comments

    I have visited Rosebank often during over two decades of Forgotten NY. It’s is a pleasant village in southeast Staten Island with tree-lined streets filled with venerable old homes that…

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  • One Shots

    CONTINENTAL, 1991-2018

    by Kevin Walsh October 12, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 12, 2023 25 comments

    If I was ever in the Continental, 3rd Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, the memory has slipped between the cracks in my head as I don’t recall it. I do…

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  • Roads

    END OF KINGS HIGHWAY

    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh October 10, 2023 11 comments

    I have written about Kings Highway a number of times in FNY and have walked much of its length over the quarter century I have posted on Forgotten NY. I…

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