A florist has expressed interest in a tiny storefront on Peck Slip, and negotiations have begun for a bakery on Front Street.

A pre-dawn wildcat strike helped grind the market to a halt, allowing thousands of pounds of fish to rot on Peck Slip.

Peck Slip is a cobblestone boulevard wide enough that the schooners that used to unload there could float four abreast.

Some headed to the Market Bar and Grill on Peck Slip, which was serving bean soup.

"We saw one place near Peck Slip; it was beautiful," says Mr. Sheinberg.

Timber slats at 24 and 36 Peck Slip will evoke the ships that moored there when the slip was a waterfront berth.

The instant the fish hit the cobblestones of Peck Slip, a fist of men standing nearby cut yesterday's early-morning air with a throaty roar.

His first novel, 14 Peck Slip, was named a notable book of the year in 1994 by the New York Times.

Peck Slip, for instance, might have a shallow 4,000-square-foot pool at its center that could be used in winter as a skating rink.

Brady had already owned and operated a small cooperage shop in Peck Slip.