Fishes and Seaports Traditional Cache
New York Admin: I regret to report that the cache owner has not responded to the prior note about this disabled cache. I'm archiving it opening the area up to others.
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Facing Brooklyn, to the right of the cache is the former Fulton Fish market, and to the right of that building, is Pier 17 at South Street Seaport.
The South Street Seaport (or South Street Seaport Historic District) is a historical area located in lower Manhattan, New York City. The seaport is situated where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. It features some of the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan and includes the largest concentration of restored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city. The seaport also includes mercantile buildings and sailing ships from the early colonial period, as well as retail and commercial sites such as the former Fulton Fish Market and a shopping mall at Pier 17.
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. The wholesalers at the Market then sold it to restaurateurs and retailers who purchased fresh fish of every imaginable variety. It was possible for fish to be rushed from fishing ports in New England to wholesale buyers at the Fulton Fish Market, who might then resell it to retail markets and restaurants in the very same towns where the catch originated.
Prices at the Fulton Fish Market were tracked and reported by the U.S. Government. In its original location, it was one of the last, and most significant, of the great wholesale food markets of New York. It survived major fires in 1835, 1845, 1918, and 1995. The market have been relocated to the Bronx.
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