The City Concealed  Up in the Fulton Ferry Hotel

Joseph Mitchell immortalized the building in his 1952 New Yorker story, "The Cave." Details

 

Program: The City Concealed

Episode: Up in the Fulton Ferry Hotel

that Joseph Mitchell, a habitue and student of the Fulton Fish Market, was eating at Sloppy Louie's restaurant on the ground floor of the old hotel, when Louis Marino, the owner, mentioned the abandoned floors of the building. The ever-curious Mitchell offered to venture upstairs with Marino to see what was there.

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Duration: (7:59)
Premiere Date: 02/17/2009
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR


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