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According to this New York Times article, at two in the morning, trucks head to Hunts Point, home to the Fulton Fish Market at 800 Food Center Drive. The market, now 202 years old, originally opened in Lower Manhattan in 1822 and moved to the Bronx in 2005. The market is a 400,000-square-foot shed, bustling with activity before dawn. It supplies 45% of the seafood used in New York City's five boroughs, with sales peaking around 3 a.m. The market offers a diverse range of seafood, from local catches like Maine lobsters and Long Island bluefish to exotic items like Sicilian gambero rosso and Tuscan branzino. From a mezzanine above, one can see the busy market floor, with fish laid out in cardboard boxes or metal trays. The market is largely wholesale, but individuals can also shop there for a small fee. Future plans include pop-up restaurants, a renovated waterfront, and an artist residency. The Fulton Fish Market remains a vital part of New York's seafood supply chain, attracting fishmongers from all over the tristate area.

Based on a design by architects Antonio and Stefano De Marchi, the Church of San Tomaso was built between 1822 and 1831. It is characterised by a monumental facade, the lower half of which is actually 16th century stonework taken from the theatre of the Mocenico counts in Belvedere di Cordignano. Construction on the bell tower next to the church began in 1868, based on a design by Giuseppe Vido di Stevena, and was completed in 1921 according to Domenico Rupolo's plan. The interior, with a single nave and six side chapels, features abundant decorations on the walls and a vaulted ceiling embellished by coffers. In addition to the 18th century altars and the wonderful frescoes depicting the Fallen Angels and the Coronation of the Virgin by Giovanni De Min, follower and friend of Canova, the church boasts fine works of art from the 16th to 20th centuries that were originally found in the old parish church of Santa Lucia in Castello. The triptych by Francesco da Milano depicting St. Roch between St. Sebastian and St. Nicholas (1512), and the Incredulity of St. Thomas, detable to the 18th century, are worth mentioning. The 16th-17th century triptych depicting an Enthroned Virgin Mary and Child with Saint Lucy and Saint Florian is by a Venetian painter. The late 16th-century painting of the Trinity has been attributed to Giuseppe Moretto, and probably was inspired by a similar painting by Il Pordenone for the Duomo of San Daniele del Friuli. The baptismal font (1558) is worth noting also, thanks to its colourful Renaissance-style wooden cover.

Tepelena Castle is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) castle that lies in the southern Albanian town of Tepelenë. It was once an important residence of Ali Pashë Tepelena, a local ethnic Albanian and powerful Ottoman ruler of the Pashalik of Yanina. The site of today's castle was most probably originally occupied by a Byzantine one. The hill on which Tepelena lies is very strategicly important, as it is where the Drino valley and the Vjosa valley unite. After occupying Tepelena and destroying the old Byzantine fortification, the Ottomans built a small castle. The tax register of 1520 mentions the settlement having 27 Christians and 3 Muslim households and the castle having a garrison of 183 soldiers. In 1670 Evliya Çelebi describes the 40 houses of Tepelena in a rather desolate condition and also mentions that the settlement had no khan, no hammam, no medrese or mekteb. Çelebi also mentions that the 80 villages of the region have a rather rebellious stance against the Sultan. The Kâmûsü'l-A'lâm describes the town as rather small with 1800 inhabitants in 1888/89. It had 30 shops and two mosques, one of Sultan Bayezid II and one of Ali Pasha of Tepelena. The Ottoman castle had a size of 56 m x 40 m and had a wall which was 350 metres long. It had two gates, one to the North and one to the East. Parts of these gates still exist, together with remnants of the wall and two towers with a diameter of 10m and around 5m height. Part of this old castle are also the remnants of an old minaret, belonging to a former mosque. The walls of the castle were built using the Cloisonné technique. Ali Pasha expanded the fortress massively in the early 19th century. On the eastern gate, the so-called Vizier Gate (Albanian: Porta e Vezirit) a Greek inscription mentions the year 1819, however the castle remained unfinished as Ali Pasha died only shortly after in 1822 in Yanya. The main entrance had an Ottoman inscription up until the 1970s when it vanished. The castle Ali Pasha built is around 4ha big, the walls reach widths of up to 5m. The castle thrones above the Vjosa Valley and has three gates. The remnants of the walls have a height of around 10 metres. Three polygonal towers have survived, one in the southeast, one in the southwest and one in the northwest. The castle itself is a good exampe of Ottoman castle engineering of the 17th and 18th century. The old Ottoman castle of Bayezid II. which found itself inside the much bigger new castle was used by Ali Pasha as a magazine.

Haxhi Et'hem Bey started building the Clock Tower in 1822 and it was finished with the contribution of the rich families of Tirana. At first, the tower was 30 meters high and the clock had a fixing mechanism and a brass bell. The number of its 'ding-dongs' showed the time because the clock had no field and no hands. The clock was put together by the Tufina family, who were mentioned as clock professionals. In certain heights the tower had small windows for ventilation, lightning and protection. In 1928, the tower changed its shape and took the appearance it has today. It was 5 meters higher than before reaching 35 meters, the balcony was built, 4 clock fields with hands were placed on the tower and a Venetian style roof was set to it. The Albanian state bought a clock in Germany to show the modernization of Tirana at that time. The tower has accompanied the development of the city and this was reflected in its appearance, with the first half in Ottoman style, all carved in stone, while from the balcony and up in Western style. In the '30s, the tower was lit for the first time in the evening. During World War II it was damaged, but it was restored in July 1946. Until 1970 the tower was the highest building in the capital city. The lower part, built with thick stone walls, used to have wooden stairs that could take you to the upper areas. During the restoration the wooden stairs were replaced with metallic ones. The Clock Tower is the symbol of the Municipality of Tirana and together with the Et'hem Bey Mosque represents a unique architectural ensemble. Funding for the restoration of the Clock Tower and the reconstruction of the Museum was made possible by the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tirana District, Mr. Nikolin Jaka, in April 2016.

The Clock Tower of Tirana (Albanian: Kulla e Sahatit të Tiranës), was built in 1822 in Tirana, Albania by Et'hem bey Mollaj, a Bejtexhinj poet who also finished the Et'hem Bey Mosque next to the clock tower. Watchmaster Ismail Tufina was the first to assemble the Tirana clock mechanism in 1822. It is a monument of culture of first category, approved on 24 May 1948. It is 35 metres (115 ft) tall and was the tallest building in the city at the time it was completed. The Tirana Clock Tower was built by the Ottoman Turks in an Islamic style and with simply a bell from Venice to be rung every hour. In 1916 during World War I the clock was damaged. It took until 1928 to put a new mechanism.

The stone bridge that crosses Virginia Water was built between 1822 and 1827 on the site of two earlier bridges. The first wooden 'Great Bridge' was built as part of the Duke of Cumberland's works in the eighteenth century and rose in a single span. The second, the Great Stone Bridge, completed in 1789, was so dilapidated by 1826 that the architect Sir Jeffry Wyatville judged that it would be folly to repair it. His own massively constructed Five-Arch Bridge has lasted relatively unchanged for 180 years.

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