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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Love it!By CustomerExcellent book!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. GREAT BOOK!By Rob MeloneThis is a really beautiful book- great photography with great subjects; and a real gritty feel for the fishmongers life and environment! Additionally; there are great back stories; anecdotes and and history that bring it even to a more graphic level.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Finding the Lost New YorkBy B. Wolinsky1979; an artist/photographer walks into a bar at the fish market at 4am; and a big man walks up to her; with an icy stare; and orders her out The neighborhood was the Fulton fish market area; a men-only zone; and hostile. She did gain the trust of some locals; but others remained suspicious. After looking at the authorrsquo;s photos; and reading her account of the area; I can see why. Barbara Mensch was one of three kinds of people who yoursquo;d see in the vicinity of South Street and the Fulton fish market. You had the Wall Street financiers; then the artists in the lofts; and finally the men who worked on the docks. For over 100 years the area was a seaport; and even after the seaports moved to New Jersey and Philadelphia; the fish market stayed. Towering glass office buildings hovered over the rotting piers; where men in bloody overalls loaded fish for the wholesalers. The industry was controlled by the mob; and the workers; on top of their backbreaking night shift work; had to deal with mob shakedowns. The place was dirty; smelly; and rough. Mensch has some photos that she (discreetly) took of the barrsquo;s daytime customers; against the advice of the barkeep and some jewelry-wearing guys. In the grainy photos; a salty-looking old white man in a sailorrsquo;s peaked cap sits with two scrawny leather-clad black women; most likely prostitutes. According to her; the guy was English; possibly came as a sailor on one of the boats that used to dock there; and stayed on. He may have lived in one of the filthy tenements of the area; or even above the restaurant Sloppy Louisrsquo;; whose location appears in the classic Up In The Old Hotel. I might add that the South Street area was not a tourist attraction in the late 1970rsquo;s; but a filthy; rat-infested; dangerous place. Itrsquo;s mentioned in the French Connection; where in the early 60rsquo;s you could find nasty dive bars from there up to Pike Slip. The photos arenrsquo;t exceptional; theyrsquo;re mostly the same pictures of rough; dirty white guys; few blacks worked on the docks. Unlike most photos that canrsquo;t give you much other than the image; Menschrsquo;s photos give you a five-senses feel; so much that you can almost smell the fish! You also get a sense of how the men ached from the cold; and in the summer they must have been assaulted by the smell. Mensch writes that the dock workers werenrsquo;t happy about having to answer to the mob (on top of all their other problems); but at the same time they didnrsquo;t like government interference. They had a ldquo;where were you all those yearsrdquo; kind of attitude; and viewed the authorities as strangers whorsquo;d never been there for them. Almost all of the workers were Irish or Italian; and some of them lived on the Lower East Side; which at the time was also a hellhole. The place had its own laws; everything was based on trust (not as violent as yoursquo;d think) and the rules were simple; if you screwed up you never worked their again. It was a great place for ex-cons and illegal aliens; lots of Englishmen who came here as sailors. However; right after these photos were taken; the fish market was reduced. Thanks to the increase of high-priced real estate in the area; and the fact that the seaport was becoming a tourist spot; the city stepped in and regulated everything. Trucks had to be out of there by 10am so as not to bother the suit-wearing Wall Street guys. Therersquo;s a funny photo of a guy in an expensive suit and carrying a briefcase; walking briskly past guys in overalls unloading crates; and he looks like the sort of Italian American who in another decade wouldrsquo;ve worked at the docks. Another shows high-heeled yuppie chicks strutting past the men with crates. Good thing they didnrsquo;t need to use the bathrooms; because the walls were covered in nudie pics. There are other books about old New York; and Irsquo;ll name a few; The City That Became Safe; City of Disorder; Selling the Lower East Side. These books are scholarly; but they lack what this book has; and that is the primary source. Mensch not only includes photos; but also her words. She writes a firsthand account of her experience there; from someone who watched it all unfold up close
