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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.

  • Forgotten Slices

    HALL OF RECORDS, CITY HALL

    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 15, 2025 4 comments

    THE city’s Hall of Records at 31 Chambers Street is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten-NY essay as its exterior and interior are landmarked, it appeared in numerous movies, and…

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  • Subways & Trains

    PORT MORRIS BRANCH

    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 14, 2025 2 comments

    THERE are some parts of town I’m in but rarely, and Port Morris in the Bronx, located east of the Triboro Bridge/Bruckner Expressway from East 132nd to East 141st, is…

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  • RoadsSubways & Trains

    MAGAW LANE, MIDWOOD

    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 13, 2025 3 comments

    As many NYC railbuffs (but a decreasing number of them) remember, the last NYC subways grade crossing was way out at the far southeast of Brooklyn in Canarsie, at the…

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  • One Shots

    SIMPSON FOUNDRY COAL CHUTE

    by Kevin Walsh November 12, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 12, 2025 6 comments

    KEEP looking down…you may see a piece of New York City forgotten history. A few years ago I was ambling east on East 95th Street near Hunter College High School…

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  • Trolleys

    QUEENSBORO TRACKS

    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 11, 2025 3 comments

    FORGOTTEN FAN Jonathan Rickard passes along what appear to be exposed trolley tracks, and a bit of Belgian block paving, in a storage area at the remaining 1909 vintage lamppost…

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  • One Shots

    LABOR LYCEUM, GRYMES HILL

    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 10, 2025 7 comments

    INSPIRATION for Forgotten New York items comes from all over. Attention was called on x (twitter) about a curious sign on a one-story brick building, #544 Vanderbilt Avenue at Ellington…

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  • Alleys

    LAKE PLACE, GRAVESEND

    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 9, 2025 2 comments

    WAY BACK in 1999. the dawn of the Forgotten NY era, I profiled Lake Place, an odd east-west alley in Gravesend running east from 86th Street at West 11th Street…

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  • Alleys

    FLETCHER STREET, SEAPORT

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2025 5 comments

    FLETCHER STREET, a narrow alley in the South Street Seaport area originally going three blocks between Pearl and South Streets a block north of Maiden Lane, is seen here in…

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  • Cemeteries

    JAMES LEESON, TRINITY CEMETERY

    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 7, 2025 3 comments

    HERE’S a photo of the webmaster and my good friend, Doctor of Theology and author Dawn Eden Goldstein, in a 2007 outing in front of James Leeson’s gravestone in Trinity…

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  • Out of Town

    GREAT BEDS LIGHTHOUSE, TOTTENVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2025 4 comments

    FOR the first time in several years, I made my way south to Tottenville, New York State’s southernmost “town” (actually a neighborhood in NYC), on a very warm 80+-degree afternoon…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    STATEN ISLAND ZOO 2025

    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 4, 2025 2 comments

    THE only zoo in the city that is not operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society is on Staten Island, at 614 Broadway near Clove Lakes Park in West Brighton, in…

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  • One Shots

    FORGOTTEN NEW YORK IS BACK

    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh November 3, 2025 6 comments

    FORGOTTEN NEW YORK was on hiatus for a few days because of a hardware issue: the keyboard wasn’t typing. This meant I couldn’t even enter the password to access the…

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