{"id":471,"date":"2005-11-14T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/11\/tuna_family_mourns_fulton_fish_markets_demise.html"},"modified":"2005-11-14T09:48:06","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T17:48:06","slug":"tuna_family_mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/tuna_family_mou.html","title":{"rendered":"Tuna Family Mourns Fulton Fish Market’s Demise"},"content":{"rendered":"

After months of legal wrangling, the Fulton Fish Market finally closed<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Fulton Fish Market, a cultural touchstone in lower Manhattan for nearly 184 years, packed up its last box of porgies early yesterday.
\nIts cobblestone-paved streets survived Tammany Hall, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the replacement of push carts with Nissan hi-low forklifts and alleged mob control.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Taking a coffee break at 5 a.m., a brawny vet nicknamed “Joey Tuna” struggled to hold back tears.<\/p>\n

“Big guys ain’t supposed to cry, but a part of old New York is dying today,” Joey Centrone of Douglaston, Queens, said. “I recognize this place is antiquated, but it’s a part of us.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, over in the Times<\/a>, Joey’s brother Bobby also lets his emotions get the better of him:<\/p>\n

“The city is throwing away its history,” said a fillet man named Bobby DiGregorio, better known as Bobby Tuna. “One day, there’s going to be a Banana Republic where I’m standing.” He finished slicing the belly of a fish the size of a Great Dane and slowly shook his head.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The new fish market at Hunts Point in the Bronx opened Sunday to lukewarm reviews<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Fulton Fish Market opened for business at its new digs in The Bronx yesterday \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with some of the 38 wholesalers already complaining that security there is too tight.<\/p>\n

“It’s strange because it’s just a different environment. I was in that first market for 30 years \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this is completely different,” said Mike Rizzuto, 53, of Montes Seafood.<\/p>\n

He was annoyed that the enclosed compound, complete with chain-link fences and barbed wire, has three security checkpoints.<\/p>\n

And some truck drivers griped about the increased travel time.<\/p>\n

Buyer Michael Serra said, “I miss Chinatown, the Brooklyn Bridge, the scenery. There’s nothing here.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also: New Fulton Fish Market<\/a> (shouldn’t they get a more current name?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After months of legal wrangling, the Fulton Fish Market finally closed: The Fulton Fish Market, a cultural touchstone in lower Manhattan for nearly 184 years, packed up its last box of porgies early yesterday. Its cobblestone-paved streets survived Tammany Hall, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the replacement of push carts with Nissan hi-low forklifts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhattan","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}