Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis
Forgotten New York is your passport to more than 300 years of history, architecture, and memories hidden in plain sight.
Houses dating to the first Dutch settlers on Staten Island; yellow brick roads in Brooklyn; clocks embedded in the sidewalk in Manhattan; bishop's crook lampposts in Queens; and a white elephant in the Bronx—this is New York and this is your guide to seeing it all. Forgotten New York covers all five boroughs with easy-to-use maps and suggested routes to hundreds of out-of-the way places, antiquated monuments, streets to nowhere, and buildings from a time lost.
Forgotten New York features:
- Quiet Places
- Truly Forgotten
- History Happened Here
- What Is This Thing?
- Forgotten People
- And so much more
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About the Author
Kevin Walsh, an urban explorer extraordinaire and creator of www.forgotten-ny.com, provides a window into a world that few even know exists. He hosts sold out Forgotten-NY Tours throughout the boroughs and is a much sought-after expert on little-known facts about New York City. He grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, watching the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge being built and presently lives in Flushing, Queens.
Customer Reviews
Go ahead, be a tourist!
This book is not for the out-of-towner planning a weekend, or even a week-long trip. New York is too big, and there are so many 'mandatory' things you should see. But this is definitely a book that should turn many a New Yorker into a weekend tourist.
The problem with living in New York is that life is permanently set to warp-speed. The present and the very near future are all anyone can think of, and that other great foundation of New York (in addition to its literal bedrock)--its history--is often forgotten. This is a shame, as what the city has been to the many people who have come to it to realize their dreams is a great part of the place's magic. Kevin Walsh has done a terrific job of documenting the surviving islands of that history that the city was simply too busy (or forgot) to tear down.
New Yorkers: buy this book, clear your calendar, and take a couple of days, or even an afternoon, discovering the city that you've never really noticed. You'll never think of New York the same way.
Forgotten New York
This was a gift for a very dear friend of mine. I am very satisfied with the book and with the service. Thank you.
A great read
I found out about this book through the author's extensive website. I'm not even from New York and I found it to be really interesting, and I'd definitely take the book with me if I were ever to visit town. Of course, this is just a sampling of what this author is capable of - the website is amazing, and in many ways I hope that some of the material from the site could make a commpanion volume. Great work from everyone involved.
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