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May 30th, 2010 
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Image taken on 2005-09-27 08:51:07 by drp.
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Great image, Duane…thanks for the story too! These are really wonderful….
Nice image, you know the saying, "all good things must come to and end" at least this one also has a new beginning
busy image… like the shadows..
(sorry couldnt read the essay… )
I am not good with change, and 184 years of history is significant. I feel a sadness in hearing this news, since somehow I hadn’t heard it before. Sad also, because after all the years I lived in NYC, I never made it down there to take a look in person. Being a night person, you would think I would have made it down there at least once. Those bitter cold mornings had to be tough down on Fulton Street, so I suppose the working conditions will be more comfortable for everyone up in the Bronx. …but still an end to a rich part of NYC history. Thank you, Duane for sharing this story.
Hope things are working out at your new job.
Love how you’ve captured the segueway between the bustling, and the soon to be abandoned.
what a great bit of history…when london’s covent garden fruit and vegetable market got moved years ago, it felt exactly the same…i used to work just around the corner at the time and it was such a vibrant place, full of life and history…it’s not too bad there now but it’ll never be the same…
when i heard it was moving i couldn’t beleive it…
…still have a hard time believing it, and i don’t even eat fish.
nice shot!!!
Wonderful story, thanks! It is always so sad when places like this vanish… because it is not only an old fishmarket – it’s a place soaked with history, faces, stories, persons and in this case with smells, too.
Beautiful story with the photo photojournalism, really. I saw some TV show before I left the states about this, maybe PBS or something.
I guess this is progress…
Great shot – I can almost smell it…
the last days … for about the fourth time.
Thanks, as always, for sharing an image perfectly matched to the text. Although you are perfectly capable of writing such vivid prose, this time the author is Neil Samson Katz, whose name you omitted by oversight, I’m sure, certainly not by intention.
Great image and story. Very inetersting colours in this composition.
Ahhh Duane U are the wizard of words – I LUV the way U are telling us about that historic location – I can smell the fish and hear the workers shouting and swearing – and, btw.,U also caught the atmosphere so well with the photo……………keep on carrying us away to magic places……….. !!!!!!!!!!!
both picture and text are great description.
what a great image!
wonderful, Duane! I hate that "progress" is robbing us of the charm and interestedness of so much of our country. Steel and concrete may look futuristic (Hey, we’re the look of tomorrow!)…but I love the colour of the soil and the sun and the morning glory.
great shot! love it!
Liked the colours and composition! Congratulations!
Was only down there at night (when Caoline’s Comedy Club was at the Seaport)
Wish I had the chance to explore it before it moved.
Nice shot.
very nice duane….
reality shot, good shot
excellent
nice shot duanne
well done.
Thanks for telling this history… I had no idea the market is going to move. Another part of Manhattan to go through gentrification….
Beautiful picture I love the composition
I love how I’ve been exposed to the place before, yet was completely unaware that it actually existed.
Fabulous photojournalism, as usual, Duane. Thanks for the tale–interesting and entertaining.
again thnx for the great shot and the great story:)
I used to run past the fish market every evening. The stench was, I might add, unbearable and I certainly picked my pace up on that stretch because of it. (This was not always the safest thing to do, since the sidewalks in front of the markets were slick and slippery with the residue left by the gutted fish).
A bit sad story… Great pic, anyway
WordMingle, a social vocabulary building tool, pulled this picture for the word Morose
That’s a pretty stunning — but I think a metal building would probably keep this wharf safer. Even fish love steel construction.
I remember biking over the Brooklyn Bridge and witnessing that whole thing up in flames…Who Dunnit’???
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Vanishing New York, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
I Miss The Old Market ! I Work In The Fulton Fish Market For Over 10 Years Now And The New Fulton Fish Market At Hunts Point Seems Like It’s Not Going To Last So Sad To Say. Expenses Are TOO High And Most Of The Smaller Stands Like Montes Seafood Might Be In Danger Of Bankruptcy. I THINK I SPEAK FOR MOST OF THE WORKERS IN THE FULTON FISH MARKET When I Say We Miss South Street Seaport In Every Aspect Of The Way. The Beautiful View Of The Sky Scrappers That Protected Us From Those Brutal Winter Winds And Storms ! The FDR Used To Protect Some Of Us From Rainy Days And We Used To Use Garbage Cans To Make Fires To Keep Us Warm At Night Through All These Elements. It’s Not Easy Work But This Is Part Of The Life Of Working In The Fulton Fish Market ! GOD BLESS !