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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.

  • Subways & Trains

    IRON MAIDEN TURNSTILE

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

    AND now, another image from the dawn of Forgotten New York, from 1998-2000, thereabouts. At this remove, I’m not sure where I fired off this photo, but by the tiling…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    HECLA IRON WORKS, WILLIAMSBURG

    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 11, 2025 1 comment

    LAST June, I wrote about the monumental former American Beverage Company Building, #118 North 11th just west of Berry Street. I was under the impression that was its original purpose.…

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  • One Shots

    SHOLOM ALEICHEM CO-OPS

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

    THE Sholem Aleichem Cooperative on Giles Plae west of Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights was built by labor unions and progressive Jewish organizations. Sholom aleichem, in Hebrew, means “peace be…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    AVENUE D 2025

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2025 5 comments

    Continued from Avenue C BY SERGEY KADINSKY AND KEVIN WALSH FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply,…

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  • One ShotsRoads

    EAST END, METROPOLITAN AVENUE

    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 9, 2025 3 comments

    MANY of New York City’s longest and most important roads begin in inconspicuousness and humble spots. Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was…

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  • One Shots

    VLADIMIR LENIN, LOWER EAST SIDE

    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 6, 2025 8 comments

    At #178 Norfolk Street south of East Houston, keep looking up for a triumphant statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the chief architect of the Soviet state that ruled much of eastern…

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  • You'd Never Believe You're in NYC

    HART ISLAND

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

    By PATRICK O’CONNORGuest post I’ve always been fascinated by the inaccessible islands of the New York City archipelago.  I purposefully use the term inaccessible rather than abandoned.  Many of the…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    SORROWS IN THE EAST

    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 4, 2025 4 comments

    In recent Lower East Side wanderings I came once again to one of NYC’s best Roman Catholic mini-cities, way over in the far east of the Lower East, at Pitt…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    CANARSIE GAS

    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 3, 2025 10 comments

    CANARSIE is named for the indigenous Canarsee Indians the Dutch found in residence when they arrived in the 1640s. The name “Canarsee”’s etymology is in dispute, but it some scholars…

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  • Walks

    AVENUE C 2025

    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh February 2, 2025 6 comments

    Continued from Avenue B FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few exceptions, from A…

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  • One Shots

    COLEMAN-GRAY HOUSE, ROSSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 30, 2025 0 comment

    SOMETIMES historic buildings are hiding in plain sight. Take this unassuming two-story house on Woodrow Road and Rossville Avenue, in an area that has gone from rural to suburban to…

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  • One Shots

    GOURMET 45, TURTLE BAY

    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh January 29, 2025 6 comments

    THIS building on the northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and East 45th looms large in my memory. From 1982-1988, I was in the building most nights between 2 and 3…

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