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Forgotten NY is a website about the hidden, out of the way and off the radar places that NYC guidebooks ignore.

10/29/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/10/cutler-mail-chute/

The Cutler chute is a vertical mail collection system that allowed tenants in skyscrapers, hotels, and office buildings to drop letters from upper floors straight into a ground-level mailbox

10/28/2026

Today's SpliceToday today.

Rescanning, archiving, and maintaining nearly three decades of NYC photography. || Kevin Walsh

10/27/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/10/corner-kenns-soho/

Founded in 1972 by Kenneth "Kenn" Reisdorff, later joined in ownership by his brother Bob, hence the "Bob and Kenn's" sign over the door

10/26/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/10/best-western-mondrian-port-morris/

I call the hotel the Boogie Woogie Best Western, as it reminds me of the Piet Mondrian painting "Broadway Boogie Woogie"

10/26/2026

New on Substack!

I’m afraid I don’t have great memories from my four-year stint working in the copywriting office at Macy’s from 2000-2004, in between stints at Publishers Clearing House.

10/26/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/10/bronx-river-starlight-part-2/

Extensive site remediation was necessary to transform this industrial site into a park–including removal of contaminated soil...

10/23/2026

New on Substack!

A depiction of General Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882) can be found at Flatbush Avenue and Union Street.

10/22/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/10/bayswaters-mystery-flagpole/

At Ocean Crest Boulevard, Dickens Street and Beach Channel Drive, an unnamed median hosts a flagpole without an inscription or a plaque

10/22/2026

https://forgotten-ny.com/2026/10/back-at-the-cheyenne/

I've retuned to featuring the Cheyenne often as it was a favorite (the Mohegan burgers were excellent)

10/21/2026

Today's SpliceToday today

Natural springs, speakeasies, banks, and firehouses. || Kevin Walsh

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