"The Fulton Fish Market started out in 1822 as a general food market like others in the city because it was located in a residential neighborhood. The merchants who operated there began to specialize in fish during the 1850s because there were efficiencies associated with wholesaling one product...

Part I: Pre-contact to the Treaty of Vienna -- 1. Beverstad -- 2. An Island in the Center of its Hinterland -- 3. Port and Entrepot -- Part II: The Displaced Nineteenth Century -- 4. Catastrophic Agglomeration -- 5. A Port in Time -- 6. Manufacturing Employment at Mid-Century -- 7. Huddled...

A new sample containing rental price and characteristic data for over 15,000 New York City units was collected from historical newspapers for the period 1880 to 1910. These units were geolocated to the historical map of Manhattan Island to explore their geographic coverage, using Geographic...

"Bob Pisani is Senior Markets Correspondent for CNBC and has spent the past 25 years on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. He has been on the front line of finance for all the major events of the last quarter century, including the Asian Financial Crisis, the dot-com bubble and collapse,...