The New Fulton Fish Market

First visit & we were overwhelmed at the selection of fish & other seafood here. This place is a huge wholesale operation that sells to the public. If you have a restaurant, this place is a must to visit. If you have a huge freezer at home, yes, this place is definitely a must place to visit. Great price but everything is in huge quantity.
This place is only open from Monday to Friday from 1am to 7am. Don’t wear anything you love when you’re coming to this place because whatever you’re wearing will smell like fish. Parking lot is huge & it cost $ 7 to park. The staff were friendly. Watch out for forklifts.

Crab Heaven
First visit and was impressed. The Fulton Fish Market is a huge wholesale operation that periodically sells to the public. We wanted blues and found bushels at 50 dlrs. Excellent price. The staff was friendly and helpful. Watch out for forklifts. Bring a handcart.

Might as well ring in the New Year with with one of New York’s oldest businesses. The original location built in 1822 was in business for 183 years until it moved to it’s current location in 2005. The original in the seaport area outgrew what it could hold so they had to move to a larger facility in the Bronx where it is more modern and it is also more spacious. The market is second in size only to the Tsukiji fish market in Japan. Seafood in New York comes in through the Fulton fish market, plain and simple.
The market is open mon-​fri from 1am-​7pm for retail on certain days. The market is mostly done by 4am, so come early. The day that I went, we got there around 5am and it seemed like some of the sellers already closed up. The warehouse is massive and somewhat intimating especially as a retail customer. The items my group ended up getting were Kumamoto oysters, Connecticut Blue Point oysters, king crab legs, mussels, Monkfish liver and Uni. The amount of food we got was respectable and the price was a little under $ 350 but it was enough to feed around 12 ppl. From walking through the warehouse, fish was the predominant item followed by oysters then various other seafood. I think I will try to get there by 1am and stick with king crab legs, mussels, other shellfish and some fish. The oysters were a lot of work and the uni was not as sweet and it was lacking in size.

Wow! The fishermen were so friendly and I was absolutely overwhelmed at the selection and excellent prices.
It was worth every second of lost sleep to arrive at 4:00am to buy the freshest fish available!
I filleted the fish myself.

Alright one more update. This might be it because I rather be eating oysters than writing reviews!
Last night we did go again and we bought a box of 100 Sewansecott Oysters from Montauk Seafood. It was $ 55 and is probably the best oysters I’ve had so far.
The oysters were very very good and the guy that sold me the oysters from Montauk Seafood is a really cool dude. I’ll let the new pics do the talking.

If your friend is visiting from out-​of-​town and he is obsessed with seafood, he will kindly ask you to do the following: take a nap around 10, set your alarm for 1, and prepare yourself for a drive to the most industrial, middle-​of-​nowhere area of the Bronx. Not sure if you’re going the right way? Simply roll down the windows and follow the smell of seafood/​large trucks.
This market, as Annie C. said awhile ago, is in fact the second largest in the world (only Tokyo is bigger), and it supplies many restaurants/​markets with the freshest catches available. It is open to the public, although not many normal people are awake and willing to travel to the Bronx while it’s open (1 – 7 am). Parking was somewhere between $ 5 – 7.
The building is massive and, despite your likely tired state, you must be cognizant of the forklifts entering and exiting, as well as zipping up the middle of the building. Buyers, sellers, and gawkers stay to the sides.
There are purveyors of tuna, scallops, conch, snails, snapper of all varieties, eel, shrimp, sea urchin, halibut, bacalao, and more. Most of what’s available is not for purchase, unless you’re planning to walk out with 10+ lbs of scallops or the like. But if you ask, some of the guys will sell you what’s available on specific tables or cut you a deal. So if you’re planning a large seafood boil or party, it may be worth it to come here.
The guys are all blue-​collar, no-​nonsense, local fishmongers and fishermen who will bust your balls without regret, which to me was part of the charm.
Also take note: whatever you wear WILL smell like fish for days until you wash it.

This place is awesome. I had read a lot about it when it was in Manhattan and since I’m interested in fisheries, I had to check it out. My boyfriend and I woke up extremely early and got there around 6 am (yes, in the morning), but most of the vendors were packing up and I’m sure all of the most interesting fish were gone. It was extremely difficult to get to using public transportation but your nose will tell you where it is when you get to about a mile away. I smelled like fish for the rest of the day. The fishmongers were extremely nice although I felt out of I was one of the only women in the place. They let me take many pictures and posed for me. I guess not a lot of tourists make the trip up there because it is so hard to get to.

If you’re looking for a different experience and can get up super early, I highly recommend coming out to the market to ogle at the awesome fish. The market is at its peak around 4am! (yes, you did not read that wrong) and then things start to slow down.
This is the second largest fish market in the world (after Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market), moved from South Street Seaport to Hunt’s point in 2005.
There’s a $ 7 fee to park and you need to be very careful of the forklifts zooming in and out of the market to the trucks with crates and boxes of fish. It’s basically a large warehouse where shipments and shipments of fish are on open display. Unless you are ready to buy at least 10 pounds worth of fish, don’t both trying to buy anything. This is more to see the action of where the fish coming into the city makes its first stop. Bring a jacket because it’s cold inside. People are pretty friendly in a rough around the edges sort of way.