Forgotten NY
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Forgotten New York[1]is a website created by Kevin Walsh in 1999, chronicling the unnoticed and unchronicled aspects of New York City such as painted building ads, decades-old castiron lampposts, 18th-century houses, abandoned subway stations, trolley track remnants, out-of-the-way neighborhoods, and flashes of nature hidden in the midst of the big city.
Walsh began photography for the site in 1998 and launced it in March of 1999; almost immediately, it garnered the notice of the New York Times, which profiled it on April 11 of that year.
In 2003 HarperCollins approached Walsh with the idea of turning the website into a book. After two years spent re-photographing the sites selected to be included in the book and writing and editing, Forgotten New York[2] was released to critical praise on September 26, 2006.
Walsh was born and spent his early years in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and currently resides in Flushing, Queens.
