It’s easy to forget that New York is a seaport town, and that fresh seafood is never far away. Throughout most of the 19th and 20th centuries, many of the best restaurants in the city got their seafood from the Fulton Fish Market at South Street. Throughout the 20th century, this was been the biggest fish market in the country. It started in 1822, when fish stalls occupied one corner of the larger Fulton Market, and fishing boats would dock at the East Side piers and unload their wares directly. As the fishing industry in New York declined, the various fish— more than 200 species—started to be delivered by refrigerated trucks from all over the country, but the sights and smells of the market, and the cobblestones underfoot, remained the same as in the 19th century. In 2005, the fish market finally closed down at the Fulton Street location, after more than 150 years. It has now been relocated to Hunts Point in the Bronx.