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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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.
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
editFulton 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.
No bus route runs on Fulton Street. The two routes intersecting with the street are the M15 and M15 SBS at Pearl/Water Streets, and the M55 at Church Street uptown or Broadway downtown.
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.
External links
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Media related to Fulton Street (Manhattan) at Wikimedia Commons
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