Red brick counting houses and a granite block street sit beneath the Financial District's glass towers.
What South Street Seaport looks like
Fulton Street runs as a pedestrian mall of granite Belgian block between 's red brick counting houses, raised in 1811 and 1812. The row's four and five story fronts are laid in Flemish bond, with granite cut into the ground floors on Front and John Streets. Arched Federal doorways survive at street level under a run of iron fire escapes.
holds the same scale a block north, string lights strung corner to corner above the cobblestone. Along with five other blocks in the district, it has been closed to cars since 1972, open only to deliveries and emergency vehicles.
A cast iron lighthouse stands at the corner of Pearl and Fulton Streets, moved here in 1976 as a memorial to the Titanic. 's wide median opens into a plaza used for public art and gatherings, with a straight view down to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The reopened in 2022 as a market hall, its red brick front lettered FULTON MARKET beneath a line of flagpoles. stands across the plaza in glass and steel, rebuilt in 2018 to a SHoP Architects design. Its roof holds an open air concert venue.
At the museum's dock on Fulton Street, the iron hulled Wavertree holds the berth the Peking left for Hamburg in 2016. Its masts rise against the glass towers of the Financial District directly behind.
Shot in South Street Seaport
Noel was filmed almost entirely in Montreal, standing in for New York. Its one scene shot outside that city used 14 Fulton Street, inside Schermerhorn Row. The Seaport has carried other films on its own streets too. Annie Hall's Alvy and Annie walk to the northern edge of Pier 17 and kiss with the Brooklyn Bridge behind them, and Working Girl used Caroline's Comedy Club on the pier for its bar scenes. Ginger and Augie are driven here by limo in Blue Jasmine, and Godzilla's title creature comes ashore at the old Fulton Fish Market site on South Street, beneath the bridge.
Noel, 2004
Schermerhorn Row
Noel filmed almost everywhere else in Montreal, using the city to stand in for New York. This single exterior was shot on the real Fulton Street, Schermerhorn Row's red brick counting houses and granite ground floors behind the actors.
Schermerhorn Row's red brick counting houses and granite ground floors closely match Fell's Point's own Federal era waterfront blocks, with cobblestone cut for the same heavy cart traffic. Fell's Point runs mostly two and three storeys against Schermerhorn Row's four, so a wide shot needs the taller block kept out of frame. Try searching Federal era brick counting houses now.
Blackstone Block in Boston, Massachusetts
The Blackstone Block's narrow lanes and brick market buildings near Faneuil Hall share Fulton Street's low rise counting house scale, on similarly irregular, pre grid streets. Boston's paving is rounder fieldstone rather than cut granite block, which shows in a close shot of the ground. Try searching narrow brick market lanes now.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford's waterfront counting houses and warehouses carry the same brick and granite combination from the same nineteenth century shipping economy, at a comparable low rise scale to Schermerhorn Row. New Bedford's streets run wider and its stone is more uniform, so a tight lens keeps the comparison convincing. Try searching brick and granite warehouses now.
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