The Fulton Fish Market : : A History /

The Fulton Fish Market : : A History / / Jonathan H. Rees.

The Fulton Fish Market stands out as an iconic New York institution. At first a neighborhood retail market for many different kinds of food, it became the nation’s largest fish and seafood wholesaling center by the late nineteenth century. Waves of immigrants worked at the Fulton Fish Market and the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Rees, Jonathan H.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 30 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION Between the City and the Sea
  • 1 FISH AND FISHING BEFORE FULTON MARKET
  • 2 THE EARLY DAYS OF FULTON MARKET
  • 3 FISH FROM FAR AWAY
  • 4 THE HEYDAY OF NEW YORK’S OYSTER INDUSTRY
  • 5 THE OPERATION OF A WHOLESALE FISH MARKET
  • 6 FISHERIES AND THE FISH MARKET
  • 7 TURTLE AND TERRAPIN
  • 8 FREEZING, COLD STORAGE, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN TRANSPORTATION
  • 9 FROM THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE TO THE FDR DRIVE
  • 10 POLLUTION AND THE DECLINE OF NEW YORK’S OYSTER INDUSTRY
  • 11 BUYERS
  • 12 THE CULTURE OF THE FULTON FISH MARKET AND ORGANIZED CRIME
  • 13 A MUSEUM AND TWO SHOPPING MALLS
  • 14 RELOCATION
  • CONCLUSION After Relocation
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON SOURCES
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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