Fulton Market Building
11 Fulton Street | also 139 Beekman Street, 1 Fulton Street, 141 Beekman Street | Financial District | built 1983
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- 1821
The city condemns a marshy block of wooden buildings for a market, and a fire clears it twelve days later
In January 1821 New York condemned this block of South Street landfill, still lined with wood-frame buildings, to make room for a long-planned Fulton Market. Only twelve days afterward a fire destroyed thirty to forty of the buildings on the site. The blaze added pressure on the Common Council to go ahead with the market, and a new building was finished by January 1822.
“Twelve days after condemnation, a fire broke out in the area and destroyed thirty to forty buildings on the site.”
- 1822
An earlier Fulton Market, a brick and stone hall by James O'Connell, opens on this site
The first Fulton Market on this lot was a brick and stone building designed by James O'Connell, who had drawn additions for Columbia College in 1818. It was finished by January 1822, after the Common Council was pressed to act. It stood here until it was replaced around 1882.
“The market was a handsome brick and stone building, designed by James O'Connell…”
- 1882
An earlier, fire-damaged Fulton Market is replaced by a Victorian terra-cotta building on this site
By 1882 the original market hall was run down and had been badly damaged by fire. It was replaced by a High Victorian building of dark brick and terra cotta by Douglas Smyth, the official architect of the city's markets. Its South Street front was open-ended, with small wooden stalls selling farm produce. That structure was itself swept away for the one-story brick market built in 1949.
- 1988
Federal prosecutors sue under racketeering law to wrest control of the Fulton Fish Market from the Mafia
The Fulton Fish Market began as a wing of the Fulton Market and kept its Seaport base for 183 years. For most of the twentieth century it was tied to one or more of the city's Mafia families. Then federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office sued in 1988 under racketeering law, seeking a trustee to run the market. The trustee had only limited success, and from 2001 the city's Business Integrity Commission regulated it.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2005
The Fulton Fish Market ends 183 years at the Seaport and reopens in the Bronx
On November 14, 2005, the fish market opened in a new $85 million facility at Hunts Point, in the Bronx, nearly four years after construction began. A last-minute dispute over who would haul fish from trucks to stalls had delayed the move. The relocation brought 650 workers north. The cramped Manhattan site, its lack of climate control and its rising real-estate value all pushed the change.
“On November 14, 2005, nearly four years after construction on the $85 million facility began, the Market opened at its Bronx location.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2016
The Fulton Market Building hosts the World Chess Championship
The Fulton Market Building on Fulton Street was the venue for the 2016 World Chess Championship. The renovated building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan had once housed the Fulton Fish Market.
Source: Wikipedia
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