Walking with Louie: A Walk into the Past with a Seaport Legend

Join longtime Seaport advocate Stephen Dima and artist Naima Rauam on their annual journey traveling back in time to learn about and celebrate Louis Morino, owner of the legendary Seaport restaurant, Sloppy Louie’s, which operated on South Street from 1930 to 1998. Louis and his restaurant were immortalized in the 1952 book, “Up In The Old Hotel” by Joseph Mitchell, famed writer for The New Yorker. Along streets where crates of fish once stretched for blocks, we’ll visualize the heyday of the working Fulton Fish Market through stories and art, and see where Louie shopped for his fish! We’ll then visit Sloppy Louie’s former annex, now the Fulton Stall Market, to hear more stories, see amazing old photos and watch a short film from 1955 featuring Louis Morino and see what the Seaport was like as a vibrant market district decades ago.