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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

    FORGOTTEN MEMORABILIA

    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 19, 2025 11 comments

    BEING a world-famous webmaster (sort of) means that, on occasion, people send you things, completely unbidden. In September 2020 I got a big box of stuff sent by a woman…

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  • One Shots

    ST. SEBASTIAN, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 18, 2025 3 comments

    St. Sebastian’s Church at Roosevelt Avenue and 58th Street across the street from Donovan’s (some parishioners cross 58th directly after Mass to bend the bar) was founded in 1894, with…

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  • Ads

    TURKISH TROPHIES, CHINATOWN

    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 17, 2025 2 comments

    HERE’S a golden oldie that may be as old as 1892 on Division Street just east of the Bowery at Chatham Square. El riders likely got a good look at…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BAY RIDGE 2024 PART 2

    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 16, 2025 3 comments

    Continued from Part 1 In June 2024, in nearly perfect shooting conditions and low humidity, I was able to execute a walk of several miles in Bay Ridge. My plan…

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  • One Shots

    CORNER DELI, WOODSIDE

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2025 9 comments

    I have passed The Corner Deli in Woodside, 69th Street 65th Place at Laurel Hill Boulevard facing the Brooklyn-Queens expressway and opposite the James Novello Winfield War Memorial, quite a…

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  • Roads

    HEWLETT STREET, GLEN OAKS

    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 13, 2025 4 comments

    LAKEVILLE ROAD is a major north-south thoroughfare in western Nassau County, part of a much longer road running from Kings Point south to Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park. North…

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  • One Shots

    271st STREET, GLEN OAKS

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

    TODAY, I offer a shot of an ordinary residential Queens street just south of 76th Avenue in the shadow of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where I have visited…

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  • One ShotsOut of Town

    BAYLIS HOUSE, FLORAL PARK

    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 11, 2025 0 comment

    In early 2020, while Covid-19 was raging, I had some idle months. One day in July I took the Q36 bus down Little Neck Parkway to Floral Park, just south…

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    BUZZ-A-RAMA 1965-2022

    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 10, 2025 20 comments

    JUST knowing something of interest is there can be enough, even if you never have the opportunity to see it. A lengthy storefront at Church Avenue and Dahill Road was…

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  • Neighborhoods

    BAY RIDGE 2024

    by Kevin Walsh March 9, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 9, 2025 8 comments

    I have many homes. I lived in Flushing for 14 years and have lived in Little Neck for over 17 now. I went to school on the Bedford Stuyvesant-Clinton Hill…

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  • One Shots

    STANTON STREET SHUL

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

    In the winter of 2024-2025 I covered a great deal of the Lower East Side and East Village, on Avenues A through D. Still plagued by age-related back issues, I…

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  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    DIVISION STREET POWERHOUSE

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2025 5 comments

    NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…

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