Fulton Street (Manhattan)
The Fulton Street is a busy street in New York City's borough Manhattan , USA .
location
Fulton Street is in Lower Manhattan's Financial District - a few blocks north of Wall Street . It runs from Church Street at the World Trade Center in the west to South Street and ends in front of the South Street Seaport in the east on the East River . The easternmost block of the street is a pedestrian zone .
history
In 1780 cricket games were regularly held near what is now Fulton Fish Market , when the British Army was in Manhattan during the American Revolution .
Fulton Street is named after the engineer Robert Fulton , who became famous for his 1809 steamship . It is characterized by many buildings of the Beaux Arts architecture that go back to the Gilded Age (1876 to 1914) and the time shortly thereafter. The early 19th century buildings on the south side of the easternmost block are called Schermerhorn Row and are listed buildings .
The Fulton Fish Market was near South Street Seaport until 2005 when it moved to Hunts Point in the Bronx .
Local transport
Fulton Street is served by the following subway lines at the Fulton Street Complex: IND Eighth Avenue Line , IRT Lexington Avenue Line , IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line, and BMT Nassau Street Line . Since 2010, the Fulton Street Transit Center has been under construction to connect these stations.
The East River ferries connect the street with Fulton Street in Brooklyn on the Brooklyn Ferry.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ David Sentence Cricket in America 1710-2000 (McFarland 2006)
Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 27.9 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 15.3" W.