South Street

by Barbara Mensch

Book Overview

South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally policed world that was deeply hostile to outsiders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231139322
• ISBN13: 9780231139328
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher