Remembering Fulton Fish Market

November 18, 2009 · Filed Under Galleries, Lore of the Sea 

oilBESTadj3.5The Fulton Fish Market, at the end of Fulton Street next to the South Street Seaport, on the East River in Manhattan, was the largest  and oldest fish market in America.  Depending on which way the wind was blowing, you would catch a whiff of the fish market from blocks away. It was pungent and salty, but not at all a bad smell. The fish were always fresh and so was their smell carried on the breeze.  Started in 1822, the market finally moved to a bigger facility in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx in 2005.

The sights, sounds and smells of the market may have left Fulton and South Streets, but they have not been forgotten.  When I visited Naima Rauam’s REMEMBERING FULTON FISH MARKET ART EXHIBIT at the @Seaport Gallery the other night, all that missing was the smell.  In oils, watercolors, pencil sketches and charcoal, Rauam captures the constant motion – the hustle, the bustle and the simple beauty that was the fish market.  A wonderful exhibition.  If you are in the area, it is well worth a trip.

The show runs through November 22nd and culminates with FISH MARKET DAY on Sunday, November 22nd, starting at 1 PM.   Jack Putnam, an educator and historian at the South Street Seaport Museum, will read from the work of writer Joseph Mitchell and will talk about his own first-hand Fish Market experience.    Terry Walton will share Market and Seaport stories from her new book, Harbor Voices, New York Harbor tugs, ferries, people, places, & more. Lifelong sailor and maritime editor Terry Walton has written about New York Harbor for 30 years.   Sal Polisi,  the South Street Seaport Museums’s Master Carver-in-residence will demonstrate woodcarving and and retired fish market worker, Sal Sclafani, will speak of his life on South Street.

To see more of the art of Naima Rauam, click here. The @Seaport Gallery is located at 210 Front Street (corner of Beekman), South Street Seaport, NYC.

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