Annie was a treasure, a one-of-a-kind human being, and enjoyed playing the "Jewish mother" to many homeless women who needed to feel that there was an older woman who cared about them in that way. I asked her one day if she went to a temple or synagogue, and she cut me off, "No! You have to wear a dress." When a woman needed to be fussed at, Annie could really do the job, but she could also be very tender. She resisted all offers of help with her apartment until last February, when she let Lindsay and me in to start the long process of throwing out all the rotten food, clothes, bric-a-brac, etc. She was "good copy" for a generation of journalists.
Annie appears near the halfway point of this video about the closing of the old Fulton Fish Market, and the move to the Bronx. She says, "When I came here I was young and cute... forty years ago. I was very popular."
Annie was a treasure, a one-of-a-kind human being, and enjoyed playing the "Jewish mother" to many homeless women who needed to feel that there was an older woman who cared about them in that way. I asked her one day if she went to a temple or synagogue, and she cut me off, "No! You have to wear a dress." When a woman needed to be fussed at, Annie could really do the job, but she could also be very tender. She resisted all offers of help with her apartment until last February, when she let Lindsay and me in to start the long process of throwing out all the rotten food, clothes, bric-a-brac, etc. She was "good copy" for a generation of journalists.
(See article and video citations below).
Sincerely yours,
Felton c/o Maryhouse
"Her Cart Wheels Slow to a Halt"
Jason Begay, New York Times, June 29, 2002
video: Up At Lou's Fish Trailer
Annie appears near the halfway point of this video about the closing of the old Fulton Fish Market, and the move to the Bronx. She says, "When I came here I was young and cute... forty years ago. I was very popular."
"Mixed Emotions in Fish Market Move"
by Barry Owens
"A Last Whiff of Fulton's Fish, Bringing aTear"
By Dan Barry, New York Times, July 10, 2005
"In Memoriam: Fulton Street Fish Market"
By Maria Finn, Fall 2005