A Book Release and a Cover Story for Forgotten NY

It’s always great to see success come to people who deserve it. Kevin Walsh has been running his website Forgotten NY and tours since 1999 on a shoestring budget, driven by nothing but his genuine fascination (obsession?) with the remaining pieces of the city’s history: faded signs on the sides of buildings, old trolley tracks buried in cobblestones, streetlamps that date back to the turn of the last century. His years of research and exploration have culminated in a new book called, not surprisingly, Forgotten New York, and a cover story in this week’s Time Out NY. “Have a good look around on your next stroll, he writes in the intro to the article. “The designs that don’t fit their context, the lettering that seems unfashionable, the fading iconography—these elements tell us stories about our city’s prior inhabitants, how they did their business and what mattered to them.” Cheers, Kevin!
Forgotten New York: Amazing Traces [TONY]
Endangered Zone: Flatbush, Brooklyn [TONY]