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Forgotten New York is a website created by Kevin Walsh in 1999, chronicling the unnoticed and unchronicled aspects of
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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. In 2003,
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approached Walsh with the idea of turning the website into a book; ''Forgotten New York'' was published in September 2006. Walsh released ''Forgotten Queens'', a collaboration with the
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, in December 2013 on Arcadia Books, is currently composing a book proposal for a second Forgotten New York book, and is working on mounting online tours for the fall and winter of 2021-2022. On March 2, 2015, the Guides Association of New York City awarded Forgotten New York its first Outstanding New York Website award.


See also

* Forgotten Chicago


References

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Forgotten New York

Greater Astoria Historical Society
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