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MotherShuckers led by Ben “Moody” Harney now has an oyster stand inside Market 57, the James Beard Food Hall. Harney was inspired by the story of Thomas Downing, “the Oyster King of New York,” a son of freed slaves who peddled oysters on Wall Street in the late 1800s. Harney also donates his shells to the Billion Oyster Project aimed at restoring New York’s oyster beds.