Fulton Street is a busy street located in

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. Located in the

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, a few blocks north of

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, it runs from

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at the site of the

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, terminating in front of the

South Street Seaport The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, centered where Fulton Street meets the East River, within the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The Seaport is a designated historic district. It is p ...

. The westernmost two blocks and the easternmost block are

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s. The street has a Beaux-Arts architectural feel with many buildings dating back to the

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or shortly thereafter. The early 19th-century buildings on the south side of the easternmost block are called

Schermerhorn Row The Schermerhorn Row Block, located at #2 through #18 Fulton Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, was constructed in 1811–12 in the Federal style, and is now part of the South Street Seaport. Each of the individual ...

and are collectively listed on the

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History

Freedom Tower from Nassau and Fulton Streets

Regular

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matches were held near the present Fulton Market in 1780 when the British Army-based itself in Manhattan during the

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. The street itself was originally broken up into two parts, divided at

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. The eastern half was Fair Street and the western half was Partition Street. In 1816, both streets were named Fulton, in honor of

Robert Fulton Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the (also known as ''Clermont''). In 1807, that steamboat ...

, an engineer who became famous for his invention of the steamship in 1809. East River ferries connected this street to Fulton 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 the

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. The

Fulton Fish Market The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in Hunts Point, a section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It was originally a wing of the Fulton Market, established in 1822 to sell a variety of foodstuffs and produce. In November 2005, the ...

was located nearby at the South Street Seaport until 2005, when it moved to Hunts Point in

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. 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 of

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to extend the street to the

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Public transportation

Fulton Street is served by the at the Fulton Street subway station. The

Fulton Center Fulton Center is a subway and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street (Manhattan), Fulton Street and Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex was built as part of a $1.4 billion proje ...

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 the at Pearl/Water Streets, and the at Church Street uptown or Broadway downtown.

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External links

* {{Financial District, Manhattan, state=collapsed Financial District, Manhattan Streets in Manhattan