
South Street
South Street is Barbara G. Mensch''s evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan''s Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally...
South Street is Barbara G. Mensch''s evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan''s Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally...