Aside from the concerts, there isn't much reason to go to the Southstreet Seaport unless you're 14 and need to hit Abercrombie & Fitch. The NY Sun reports that General Growth Properties, the developer who owns the rights to the area (the Seaport and Fulton Fish Market), is on a mission to turn that all around; but is their mission misguided? With a commercial and residential project that promises a floating pool and a community......

This evening, there was a two-alarm fire at the Hunts Point Market in the Bronx. Hunts Point Cooperative Market, the "Largest Food Distribution Center in the World," is where many meat and meat products are processed and distributed in the tri-state area. Over 100 firefighters were on the scene to fight the fire and the main fire has been extinguished. No injuries have been reported yet and the Fire Department does not know the......

MUSIC: Come enjoy the Whitney after dark tonight as the museum's live showcase series invites Dan Deacon (pictured) to the stage. If you haven't seen Deacon before, get ready for some Casio keyboard electro-rock compositions and an art dance party. Friday // 7pm // Whitney Museum [945 Madison Ave] // Pay what you want EVENT: The Moth Story Shop presents “The One that Got Away: Stories from South Street Seaport” tonight. The following storytellers will......

New Amsterdam Public’s Jill Slater and Robert LaValva have organized a one-day test run of a public market at the old Fulton Fish space. Called the Wintermarket, the event is part of the non-profit group’s proposal to create a dedicated market in the Seaport space, which these days makes so much sense that it almost hurts, what with everyone talking about grass-fed this and raw milk that. The concept of sustainable food has no value......

In 1656, Peter Stuyvesant proposed the creation of a public market for the city. As New York has changed, several marketplaces have existed, each creating a community hub as well as access to fresh food. Establishing a permanent home for a new market with breads, handmade cheeses, locally grown produce, fish, and meat is the goal of Robert LaValva and Jill Slater, the founders of New Amsterdam Public. LaValva and Slater seek to revitalize a......

READING: Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Presidential candidate John Edwards, will have the spotlight on her for the night as she reads from her memoir, Saving Graces. The tale of her teenage son's death and her current battle with cancer may have you grabbing for a box of tissues (and voting for her hubby?). 7pm // Borders [461 Park Ave] // Free MOVIE: Postponed until Monday > Head out in the rain for a screening of......

Almost two years after the Fulton Fish Market relocated to Hunts Point, a new book documents the market of days gone by. South Street, published by Columbia University Press, is a collection of photographs by Barbara G. Mensch, who began taking pictures of the fish market when she first moved to a nearby loft in 1979. The photographs are haunting and intricate, whether they document piles of dead fish on the street or a......

You've got to stop whatever you are doing and check out the urban exploration galleries at Netherworld Online. We don't know who these guys are, but they've assembled an amazing gallery of over 2000 images-- and it's top-notch breaking-an-entering type stuff. For instance, the footage from inside the new World Trade Center #7, taken over the summer-- check out the guy sitting in the bottom right corner of the photo above. Don't stop there,......

It looks like the Drawing Center will actually get an extreme downtown space. The Drawing Center is in talks to build a space where the Fulton Fish Market once was. The deal, as reported by the NY Times, is "far from a done deal," but Gothamist supposes being on the other side of the lower tip of Manhattan is far enough from the World Trader Center not to "denigrate" it. The South Street space......

After numerous delays, including a lawsuit, the Hunts Point Fish Market finally opened yesterday. The 430,000 square foot, $85 million facility was met with praise from some, while others knitpicked about some details (aww, too cold!). Mayor Bloomberg claimed that Hunts Point would bring $1 billion in economic activity a year in The Bronx, but some fishmongers said that business was down 40% on the first day. There is some concern about the shared......

We feel like it's been decades since we first wrote about the Fulton Fish Market moving. And since then the move has been hit by problem after problem after problem. But now that is all over. Amidst much media attention the Market had it's final day after nearly 185 years on Thursday. It is now being rushed up to it's new giant indoor facilities in the Bronx so as to open up for business......

There will be a place for the fishes to sleep, as the Fulton Fish Market will finally be able to move to its new Hunts Point facility in the Bronx. The fish vendors and the company that would unload the fish (yes, these are all discrete jobs) have settled after various court entanglements. Laro had been tasked by the Giuliani administration to head all fish unloading for the market, to ensure that it wouldn't be......

A judge has delayed the Fulton Fish Market from moving to the Hunts Point facility in the Bronx because of concerns that the mob might work its way back into facility. In 1995, NYC created law that, as the Post puts it, "set up a restrictive system of bidding and vetting designed to keep mobbed-up wholesalers from extorting payments from the fish-truckers for the timely unloading of their highly perishable goods." For the new market,......

- A judge is delaying the Fulton Fish Market's move to the Bronx, which means a delay of at least three weeks - Rudy Giuliani continues to tell people that he will return to politics; what he's not telling them is that he will take over for Geena Davis in Commander in Chief, because someday, an Italian will be President - How did we miss the story about the 84 year old who crashed into......

Remember when the Fulton Fish Market was going to move to the Bronx in June? And then yesterday? Yeah, that didn't happen. It seems that part of the planned move meant removing some anti-mafia safe-guards put into place a decade ago. Specifically it meant taking a truck unloading monopoly away from the Laro company and allowing Market dealers to haul their own seafood. While this sounds reasonable at first, taking the Market's history into......

- A man was shot dead near Bowery and Rivington early this morning; it may have been the result of some dispute at a club - iPod Subway Maps have been cease-and-desisted in NYC and San Fran! - Hell almost freezes over: Mark Green will campaign for Fernando Ferrer! - A downtown apartment co-op is reprimanding workers for speaking Spanish on the job; way to embrace the melting pot of New York - Will......

Yesterday, the City announced the official $150 million East River redevelopment plan. The 2 mile esplanade will connect East River and Battery Parks, and have a new "waterfront esplanade with new plantings, benches, tables, repaving, improved lighting and a widened bike path," community space at Pier 15, commercial and cultural pavilions along South Street, new park and open spaces and a new public plaza in front of the Battery Maritime Building; the Fulton Fish......

Old New York institutions are, of course, always moving, changing and getting run over; it's the nature of the city to be constantly abandoning its past. Nonetheless, the fact that the odor-iffic old-school Fulton Fish Market will be leaving Lower Manhattan in June seems a major shift. Gothamist won't rhapsodize poetic about the early-dawn shipments of stripers and the colorfully-gritty fishmongers with their personalized hooks and deft filleting; the Times piece this morning did that......

[Gothamist is happy to welcome David Hirschman, who guested as an interviewer last summer, to our family. David will be covering a variety of subjects; today is his first look at how NYC is portrayed in movies.] The way NYC is depicted in the passable Will Smith vehicle Hitch is not unlike how it has been portrayed over the last decade in Sex and the City and Friends; it's that whimsical fantasy world where everyone......

The Census Bureau released it study, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003, yesterday with the headline, "Income Stable, Poverty Up, Numbers of Americans With and Without Health Insurance Rise." Democrats are accusing the Bush administration of releasing the data all at once in August, versus in September as in earlier years, but the NY Times reports that the Census Bureau has published reports at the same time before, adding politics......

Saturday -- the first annual Hunts Point Fish Parade, starting at noon: The parade will conclude at Hunts Point Avenue, at the foot of a street festival and community fish fry. The day-long celebration will feature multiple stages with live entertainment and a new work by the Hunts Point-based internationally acclaimed modern dance company, Arthur Aviles Typical Theater. Food tents will showcase the seafood and great bounty of produce, meats, and other foods that pass......

- Unlimited cards may be going up in price - Did the smoking ban affect business? The city says they have the stats that say no. - People freak out that Adriana will get whackedon The Sopranos 'cause she's taking a role on "Joey" (PS - Sources say Adriana will be on next season) - The NY Times looks at the subway - Gothamist is unfashionably late to the punk rock aerobics party - Selling......

Liao Yusheng has a great gallery of the Fulton Fish Market. The Fish Market will be moving to Hunts Point, Bronx, in 2005, so seeing these pictures can be a substitute for those of you who don't want to wake up at 4AM to see real fishmongering in action. There's a great segment from Food TV show that has Gourmet editor and former Times food critic Ruth Reichl eating fish from all the sellers. The......