Forgotten New York is the name of a website created by Kevin Walsh in 1999, chronicling the unnoticed and unchronicled aspects of New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

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 HarperCollins approached Walsh with the idea of turning the website into a book, and the book was published in September 2006.