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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.

  • Cemeteries

    JAMES DAVIS, ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD

    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 15, 2025 1 comment

    THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…

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  • One Shots

    CHRISTOPHER STREET…OR IS IT

    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 14, 2025 5 comments

    VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…

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  • Walks

    JAMAICA AVENUE 2025

    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 13, 2025 12 comments

    In early February 2025, a month that was generally cold with at least some snow, unlike recent winters, I took advantage of a relatively mild Saturday and walked Jamaica Avenue…

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  • One Shots

    MOUNT EDEN MALLS

    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 10, 2025 2 comments

    UNTIL 1926 the northern end of Claremont Park in the Bronx was bordered by a single lane street first called Walnut, for numerous walnut trees in the area, and then…

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  • Cemeteries

    BLOODY CUTTER’S GRAVE, DOUGLASTON

    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 9, 2025 1 comment

    In 2007, on Forgotten New York’s first Douglaston-Little Neck tour, the late great Nigey Lennon, author-musician (The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain In California, Reinventing the Wheel) gives me a breather…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    BAYSIDE STATION INTERIOR

    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 8, 2025 5 comments

    A very short post today. It looks as if I am ready to embark on another Forgotten New York photo series, Long Island RR station interiors. Usually they are well-maintained…

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  • One Shots

    SUNNYSIDE DOUGHBOY 2018

    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 7, 2025 2 comments

    TURNOUT was a bit down, but nonetheless enthusiastic, for Forgotten NY’s Sunnyside tour on a drizzly day in October 2018. Here the group is photographed at the Sunnyside Doughboy in…

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  • One Shots

    ARMILLARY, BROOKLYN PROMENADE

    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 6, 2025 1 comment

    I wish I knew how to read an armillary. Its four intersecting hoops were teaching tools that illustrated the geocentric universe. With a model of Earth at their center, the…

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  • FNY CROSSTOWN

    EAST 88TH STREET, YORKVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 5, 2025 17 comments

    FOR the latest FNY Crosstown, I selected an uptown street in Yorkville/Upper East Side, an area I have neglected over the years and like many neighborhoods around town, a spot…

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  • One Shots

    WILLOUGHBY STREET 2017

    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 4, 2025 0 comment

    HERE’S Willoughby Street in the fall of 2017 on an impassably busy weekday afternoon. I don’t look back on my unemployed days in the 2010s with much fondness with the…

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  • Subways & Trains

    GRASMERE STATION

    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 3, 2025 3 comments

    CAN it be over a decade since I have walked around in Grasmere, Staten Island, the next neighborhood west of Rosebank (where I have been multiple times, including a week…

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  • Alleys

    SYLVAN TERRACE, SUGAR HILL

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2025 4 comments

    I didn’t know it at the time, November 10th, 2019, but the last Forgotten NY tour in Sugar Hill in a packed schedule that year turned out to be the…

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