Street in Manhattan, New York
The
South Street Seaport
on Fulton Street on a December afternoon
Fulton Street
is a busy street located in
Lower Manhattan
in
New York City
. Located in the
Financial District
, a few blocks north of
Wall Street
, it runs from
West Street
at the site of the
World Trade Center
to
South Street
, terminating in front of the
South Street Seaport
. The westernmost two blocks and the easternmost block are
pedestrian streets
.
The street has a
Beaux-Arts architectural
feel with many buildings dating back to the
Gilded Age
or shortly thereafter. The early 19th-century buildings on the south side of the easternmost block are called
Schermerhorn Row
and are collectively listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
.
History
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Modern day Fulton Street
Regular
cricket
matches were held near the present Fulton Market in 1780 when the British Army-based itself in Manhattan during the
American Revolution
.
[1]
The street itself was originally broken up into two parts, divided at
Broadway
. The eastern half was Fair Street and the western half was Partition Street. In 1816, both streets were named Fulton, in honor of
Robert Fulton
, an engineer who became famous for his invention of the steamship in 1809.
[2]
East River ferries
connected this street to
Fulton Street
in Brooklyn, at Brooklyn Ferry at the time, Fulton Street, counting the ferry, was one continuous street from Manhattan to Brooklyn, beginning in Manhattan, traveling across the ferry, and along what is today Old Fulton Street, Cadman Plaza West, and what is now a pedestrian esplanade on the east side of the
Brooklyn Borough Hall
.
US Hotel (Holt's Hotel), Fulton Street, largest hotel in America in the 1830s, competitor of
Astor House
of
John Jacob Astor
, was owned by Gen.
Edwin R. Yale
of the
Yale family
[3]
[4]
[5]
The
Fulton Fish Market
was located nearby at the South Street Seaport until 2005, when it moved to
Hunts Point
in
the Bronx
.
In August 2013, parts of the street were excavated in order to install water mains, but while they were digging, construction workers uncovered over 100 empty liquor bottles from the 18th century used as part of
landfill
to extend the street to the
East River
.
[6]
Public transportation
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]
Fulton Street is served by the
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
A
,
C
,
J
, and
Z
trains at the
Fulton Street
subway station. The
Fulton Center
renovation project for the station was completed in November 2014.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Sentence, David (2006)
Cricket in America 1710?2000
. McFarland.
- ^
Moscow, Henry (1978).
The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan's Street Names and Their Origins
. New York:
Hagstrom Company
.
ISBN
978-0-8232-1275-0
.
- ^
Stokes, I. N. Phelps (1928).
The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909
, New York : Robert H. Dodd, Columbia University, p. 618
- ^
Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913: 1865-1913
, Sarah Bradford Landau, p. 16-17
- ^
A Novel, Nighthawkers
, Anthony Tiatorio, Chapter 4, p. 33
- ^
Plagianos, Irene (August 7, 2013).
"Trove of 18th-Century Liquor Bottles Found Underneath Fulton Street"
.
DNAinfo
. Archived from
the original
on March 16, 2014.
40°42′36″N
74°00′26″W
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