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106-119 South Street
106-119 South Street
Fish Market, South Street; Changing New York
The Fish Market on South Street between Peck Slip and Beekman Street. At the southern end of the block (left) is Meyer's Hotel, notorious for selling alcohol during Prohibition.
IMAGE DATE1935
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Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New YorkThe Fish Market on South Street between Peck Slip and Beekman Street, November 26, 1935.
By the time Berenice Abbott took this picture in 1936, the South Street fish market filled a six-block area and was the largest wholesale seafood market on the Atlantic Coast. At the southern end of the block (Nos. 116-119) is Meyer's Hotel, notorious for selling alcohol during Prohibition.
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Urban Archive
Urban Archive