The dress code, emailed the night before, came less as an expectation than a warning: “The event will take place on the selling floor of the Fulton Fish Market, which is typically kept at a balmy 40 degrees year-round… As such, please wear your thermals.”

As folks meandered through the sprawling parking lot that wraps around the market the following night, it quickly became clear that most of them – bundled in their winter coats – had heeded the message as they walked past the “FORK LIFTS ONLY” sign hanging above the open gate entrance and into what is essentially a 400,000-square-foot refrigerator.

The most significant wholesale fish market on the East Coast, located in the Bronx's Hunts Point neighborhood, had been impressively transformed into the venue for a fishmongers’ storytelling

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