Fulton Fish Market

And The Bottom of the Harbor is my favorite of his books.

It's four long stories about different aspects of New York's aquaculture, if you call it that, from Staten Island to the Fulton Fish Market, uh, to, um, Sheepshead Bay.

And, uh, you read these stories, and Mitchell's just perfect language, simple, direct, but yet poetic language.

He brings out the character and the humanity of the people who lived in New York City, and it's just a wonderful experience, uh, enlivened by these new illustrations.

It is a fascinating parallel.

But you can contrast that Asian model with the United States, where major wholesale seafood hubs like the Fulton Fish Market in New York largely abandoned live open floor shouting auctions decades ago.

Really? They don't do the live shout anymore.

Not really.

He said he never had a college degree.

He had an FFM degree that stood for Fulton Fish Market.

That was Al Smith in 1928.

But in 1960, when John Kennedy ran, he was about as much an aristocrat.

This is kind of my main event, all right? The other day it came to my attention jessica tish aka the soccer mom who loves watching the show uh this is the third time i have now counted on a conflict of interest this one being the single most direct that there is and i know a lot of people now they'll either turn off because you're not talking about the nypd directly but not you listen what i'm saying here is very important because this is the distinction between you the ant and the person that creates the ant farm right because anyone else gets what we're about to discuss and you work in a city agency or lead the city agency you are already being they're going to round you up and start prosecuting you investigating this because it's so egregious and in your face that i don't know and no one's asking any questions because god forbid you asked the nypd or the soccer mom or city council about this but i clearly po i i wrote about this and A potential third conflict.

$25 million for the Fulton Fish Market raises new questions surrounding Jessica Tisch, Dan Levine, and Julie Menon.

Well, just so people, you understand, the other day, Julie Menon, the Speaker of City Council, very close friends with the soccer mom and her husband, sent a big $25 million check to the Fulton Fish Market.

But what you probably did not know is that Dan Levine, his husband, is the chairman.

He's not.

That's Dan Levine.

And then right here, what is he? A private investor, founder and managing partner of 104 Holdings, like I told you, which has two other contracts behind the city.

All right, and here... strong advocate, all this other stuff, but it's going to get to the point where it says right here, Dan plays an active role on the boards of the Fulton Fish Market.

End of chapter 10 CHAPTER XI.

RASHASHANA AT THE FULTON FISH MARKET We came back to the city Labor Day Monday, us and a couple million others.

Traffic crawling, a hot day, the windows practically closed up tight to keep Cat in.

I sweated, and then Cat hair stuck to me and got up my nose.

I try quick to think up something else.

We're walking down the block to my house, and there's Cat sitting out front.

So I say, let's cruise around and get down to Fulton Fish Market and pick up some fish heads for my cat.

You're a real nut, aren't you? Ben says.

Get your own slushy.

A big boost for the Fulton Fish Market.

The city's investing $25 million for upgrades.

City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Bronx Council members Justin Sanchez and Amanda Farias announced it yesterday.

And...

This is the initial investment in seeing how, uh, we can continue to support its growth and to support how we envision the future of the fish market.

This is truly reimagining the Hunts Point community with, you know, the Fulton Fish Market being one of its, uh, staples.

This $25 million investment is a collaborative effort by the Bronx delegation, borough partners, and the speaker's discretionary fund.

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Tonight the Columbia Workshop presents Fulton Fish Market, the first work for radio by Kimball Flaccus, author of two books of poetry called Avalanche of April and The White Stranger.

Kimball Flaccus is a member of the faculty at the College of the City of New York.

He calls Fulton Fish Market a choric poem.

The subject is an unlikely one.

The piece has to do with the fish that would be found in the great Fulton Fish Market in New York City, where the fish come from, how they breed, on what they prey, what preys on them, how they are caught, and who eats them.

These are the materials of Mr. Flaccus' poem.

Instead of having a professional poetry reader for the principal speaker, we have asked Bob Edge, Columbia's sports authority, who appears regularly in hunting and fishing talks on CBS, to carry the burden of the production.