M. Slavin & Sons — a century-old fishmonger that was long one of New York’s most dominant and sharp-elbowed — is finally going belly-up.
The family-run dynasty — whose business got hit hard in 2005 when a federal crackdown on Mafia-controlled unions at the Fulton Fish Market forced it and others to leave for a pricey new facility in the Bronx — will be filleted and sold for parts in a foreclosure process that’s slated to get wrapped up next week, The Post has learned.
The move to a state-of-the-art facility at Hunts Point more than a decade ago crimped customer access and hiked costs for M. Slavin and its fellow fishmongers.
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