So she followed his car to this warehouse near the Fulton Market.

The 75,000-square-foot Fulton Market, the center of the complex when it opened in 1983, is nearly empty.

The first Fulton Market, selling produce and, later, fish, opened in 1822.

At the Fulton market, there is no auction.

He seems like a dream figure plucked from the vanished Fulton market of memory and dropped into this antiseptic new world.

He said that business at the Fulton Market had declined to less than $1 billion annually from about $3 billion in the early 1980's.

The report also said the Fulton market was a center for loan sharking, extortion, insurance fraud and drugs.

"So fairly soon, we intend to take a good part of the second floor of the Fulton Market for neighborhood services."

Every morning, Sammy, our fish buyer, goes to the Fulton Market.

Despite its attractions, Fishport has not been quickly accepted by operators at the Fulton market.