Pages tagged New York
Great South Bay
The bay behind Fire Island that named the Blue Point. Its oysters collapsed between 1940 and 1980; Islip's hatchery and leased plots are bringing farmed ones back.
Little Ram
A Gardiners Bay oyster from a 20-acre farm off Shelter Island, founded in 2018 by Elizabeth Peeples and Stefanie Bassett. Over two million oysters a year.
Montauk Pearls
Montauk's first oyster farm, begun in 2009 by fisherman Mike Martinsen and biologist Mike Doall. A surface-grown oyster: salty, crisp, with a finish like watermelon rind.
Peconic Gold
The Ketcham family's North Fork oyster from a ten-acre shallow bank in Great Peconic Bay. Iron from the Peconic River and algae blooms give the shell its color.
Peconic Pearls
A North Fork cooperative oyster, seeded from a Southold hatchery run since 2000. Five cents from each one sold goes to work on the Peconic Estuary.
Robins Island
Peconic Bay oysters from an underwater grant worked since the late 1800s, beside a privately owned island. Medium brine and an iron richness, in Rowan Jacobsen's words.
The Billion Oyster Project
New York Harbor once held some 350 square miles of oyster beds. A decade into bringing them back, here is what the monitoring data say is working, and what is not yet.
The City That Ran on Oysters
Before the skyscrapers and the subway, New York was an oyster city. Some 350 square miles of beds ran beneath its harbor until the last closed in 1927.
Fishers Island
A New York island oyster grown in suspension and tumbled in West Harbor by the same family for more than 40 years.
Widow's Hole
A North Fork oyster grown in suspended purses off a Greenport house, in a village where 1,500 people once worked in oysters.
Blue Point
The Great South Bay name that became shorthand for any Eastern oyster. What a 1908 law said, and where most 'Blue Points' come from now.
Naked Cowboy
A wild Long Island Sound oyster gathered by divers, sold under a name borrowed from the Times Square street performer.