Fulton Street is a busy street located inLower Manhattan inNew York City. Located in theFinancial District, a few blocks north ofWall Street, it runs fromWest Street at the site of theWorld Trade Center toSouth Street, terminating in front of theSouth Street Seaport. The westernmost two blocks and the easternmost block arepedestrian streets.
The street has aBeaux-Arts architectural feel with many buildings dating back to theGilded Age or shortly thereafter. The early 19th-century buildings on the south side of the easternmost block are calledSchermerhorn Row and are collectively listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.
Regularcricket matches were held near the present Fulton Market in 1780 when the British Army-based itself in Manhattan during theAmerican Revolution.[1]
The street itself was originally broken up into two parts, divided atBroadway. The eastern half was Fair Street and the western half was Partition Street. In 1816, both streets were named Fulton, in honor ofRobert Fulton, an engineer who became famous for his invention of the steamship in 1809.[2]East River ferries connected this street toFulton 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 theBrooklyn Borough Hall.
TheFulton Fish Market was located nearby at the South Street Seaport until 2005, when it moved toHunts Point inthe 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 oflandfill to extend the street to theEast River.[6]
Fulton Street is served by the2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J, and Z trains at theFulton Street subway station. TheFulton 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 theM15 andM15 SBS at Pearl/Water Streets, and theM55 at Church Street uptown or Broadway downtown.
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