More Postcards From New York City #69 - South Street Sea Port & Fulton Fish Market

Quote from:
"Our New York"
by Alfred Kazin & David Finn
1989 [p. 19]

The face of New York may well be the most photographed site in the world. Almost a century ago, when picture postcards first came into view, the then largely New York-based printing industry (long departed from New York) "poured forth a torrent of postcards," says the historian of New York photography Benjamin Blom, "depicting New York as home of the nation's (and the world's) tallest buildings..." These postcards fostered the enduring legend of New York as the last word in the long history of metropolis, the megacity, the awesome, the ever "unbelievable."

No skyscrapers today, but it is a shot that will transport you back to another time, a time when the South Street Sea Port was a bustling hive of daily activity...



South Street Sea Port restoration with the Fulton Market.

From Wikipedia:
During much of its 183-year tenure at the original site, the Fulton Fish Market was the most important wholesale East Coast fish market in the United States of America. Opening in 1822, it was the destination of fishing boats from across the Atlantic Ocean. By the 1950s, most of the Market's fish were trucked in rather than offloaded from the docks.


What's there now? Not much, it's pretty quiet at the old Fulton Fish Market now, since they moved to a new location in the Bronx in 2005.