Fulton Fish Market

Just about every reporter who could get up that early checked out the new Fulton Fish Market at Hunt’s Point. Those that couldn’t followed the Mayor’s campaign to reinstitute the commuter tax . But don’t miss the best little story of the day: Jeremy Smerd’s piece on the dispute between the transit authority and Vornado which has kept a subway exit at 59th Street and Lexington Avenue closed since February.

Hunter College professor Tom Agnotti tells the Gotham Gazette that the planning process for Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn is upside down. And Steve Cuozzo knows what will fill the old Iridium space across from Lincoln Center: P.J. Clarke’s (third item).  read more »

-Matthew Schuerman

Election news first: yesterday the Mayor pledged $1 billion to build or renovate 9,000 apartments for the mentally ill and others at risk of becoming homeless.

The struggle over Ground Zero is far from over, but The Post reports that Larry Silverstein will get his public hearing on the triple-tax free Liberty Bonds that will help him build his towers next month.

London Terrace is telling its residents to, well, get a room, after some were caught engaging in "inappropriate sexual behavior" in its health-club pool.

Finally, the Fulton Fish Market is ready to move to the Bronx this weekend--though of course we have heard that before.  read more »

-Matthew Schuerman

Laro Service Systems—represented by former Mayor Giuliani’s deputy Randy Mastro--won its case this afternoon against the Fulton Fish Market cooperative, Crain’s reports --meaning it will continue to unload fish even after the market moves to the Bronx. The city is appealing and the market is expected to stay where it is in the meantime. -Matthew Schuerman  read more »

Don’t look now. Or rather, don’t look at the headlines tomorrow morning, the headlines that will say “Fulton Fish Market Move Delayed—Again.” We have been reading that for something like seven months now. This afternoon, Judge Carol Edmead let the case proceed. Next court date is Sept. 30.  read more »

Crain's is reporting that the Fulton Fish Market's move to the Bronx is being delayed yet again.

The Bronx fish market, which will supposedly generate 700 jobs in the borough and $1 billion in economic activity to the South Bronx, was supposed to be up in a few weeks' time.  read more »

Janel Patterson, the flack for the city's Economic Development Corporation, said the delay is because wholesalers are taking a long time to customize their spaces in the new facility.

The Fulton Fish Market is scheduled to be redeveloped.