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  • NYSE, seen from the stairs of Federal Hall - New York City
    NYSE, seen from the
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    Wall Street, home to the New York Stock Exchange, is where America made its first audacious architectural assertions, as there are many great buildings here by grand old banks and businesses. Wall Street itself took its name from a small wooden defense wall the Dutch built in 1653 to mark the northern limit of New Amsterdam.

    Commerce has always been the backbone of New York City's prosperity. In 1792, 24 brokers signed an agreement only to deal with eachother, and the NYSE was born. Membership is strictly limited - in 1817 a seat cost $ 25, today it's over 2 million dollars. There are 17 trading posts which each consist of 22 sections of traders and technology, each trading the stock of up to 10 listed companies.

    The most severe "crashes" of the NYSE were "Black Friday" - the gold crash of 24 September 1869, the Wall Street crash of 29 October 1929 which marked the start of the Great Depression, and 19 October 1987 - "Black Monday" - when the Dow Jones index dropped 508 points.

    The public viewing gallery has been closed since the 2001 terrorist attacks on Manhattan, but it's really worthwile to take a stroll along Wall Street and the surrounding area. Enjoy the wonderful architecture, some of the other landmarks nearby, and watch besuited brokers march up and down Broad Street, glowing with confidence and trying to look very, very important.

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  • Address: NYSE : 20 Broad St
  • Phone: 656-5168
  • Directions: area : Lower Manhattan / Financial District Subway : Trains 2,3,4,5 to Wall St, or N, R Train to Rector St
  • Website: http://www.nyse.com

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    Wall Street: New York Stock Exchange & Wall Street
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  • How often do you hear about the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street on the news - it is something I have been hearing about all my life, so we just had to stop by and take a photo.

    The Stock Exchange if a fabulous looking building.

    Ok, we didn't actually go inside, but we hung about in Wall Street looking as if we knew something others didn't!!

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  • Address: Wall Street
  • Directions: Lower Manhattan, off Broadway
  • Website: http://www.nyse.com/

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    Wall Street: Big Boy!
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  • The "charging bull" of Wall Street is quite a sight.

    It sits in the middle of Broadway, just down from Wall Street.

    This huge bronzed bull first appeared in 1989 and is now a favourite for tourists (like me!!)

    Rumour has it that if you rub it's testicles you will have good luck in the stock market!!

    Eeeeewwwwww!!

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  • Address: Bowling Green
  • Directions: Just near the Cunard Building, just down from Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan

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    Wall Street: Don't Mention The Bear!
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  • On the early morning of Dec 16, 1989, New York Stock Exchange awoke to the thought that Santa Claus had arrived early and left his generous gift on the sidewalk. The gift was a 7000 lb mass of bronze sculpted in the form of a flared-nostrils bull ready to charge, the sign most treasured in the world of finance.

    Santa Claus was not to be blame -- or to be credited -- this time. The culprit was a Sicilian American sculptor from Vittoria, Ragusa, but lived in SoHo and was known under the name of Arturo Di Modica. In the dead of the night, with the help of thirty friends and a rental truck, Arturo acted out a mission impossible of driving the truck into the guarded section, lifting the heavy merchandise off the truck, and install it on the sidewalk, all within the eight-minute lapse between the patrol rounds.

    The gift, as the sculptor indicated, was the symbol of strength, power, and hope, given to the American people after the memory of Black Monday (Oct 19, 1987, the day Dow Jones index recorded the largest loss in history, comparable to the analogous landslide that led to the Great Depression the same month 48 years earlier.)

    The police were ordered to remove the bull for its traffic obstruction, but public protest convinced New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to only move it to its permanent location on Bowling Green Park.

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  • Address: Broadway at Bowling Green
  • Directions: Take the 4 or 5 to Bowling Green.

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    Wall Street: Too much scaffolding!
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  • Charles really wanted to go to Wall Street and of course being such a famous area I didnt refuse! Everything in that area is very close to eachother so its all in walking distance, no need to get on and off the subway, especially with the wonderful weather we were having. If you DO decide to subway it however, the Wall Street stop is on lines 4 and 5 or line 2 and 3. We were at the WTC and so it was just a short walk from there and would have been more time consuming to have gone back on the subway as we would have had to change lines a few times.Im writing these tips in order of how we covered the city so when I say it was just a short walk away, I mean from the previous site we were at...you may of course decide to do it a different route!

    So we arrived and there were American flags everywhere and lots of Chritsmas lights, but WAY too much scaffolding...not good for photos...! Unfortunately you can no longer go into the New York Stock Exchange so we just had to take photos from the outside. A quick walk around the Financial District, and then we were off to our next place! Read on to find out where!!!!!

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  • Directions: Take line 2 and 3 or line 4 and 5 depending on where you are coming from.

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    Wall Street: South and Wall St Architecture
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  • Architects from other parts of the country likely salivate when they see NYC.
    So many interesting and different building designs from different periods of city history.

    When the light is right in the afternoon on some of the older / non-skyscraper buidings in financial district, I thought the effect was stunning at times.

    Great buildings in South Wall Street area, but they're all over town.

    I liked the Hunter bldg uptown also.

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  • Address: Wall St / financial district
  • Directions: South tip of Manhattan in area of Wall St. / Financial dist. & Courthouse by Brooklyn Bridge. Check MTA subway system map as lots of lines (2,3,4,5, R, etc.) all converge between Wall St and City Hall.

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    Wall Street: Gordon Gekko would be proud of this one...
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  • Anybody got a red cape ? - New York City
    Anybody got a red cape ?
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    Arturo DeModica was responsible for this ststue that almost seems to be moving, it is now located at Broadway and Front Street very near to Wall Street.

    I quite like the fact (as far as I can discover) that the statue was originally put up without the appropriate paperwork and red tape by the artist outside the stock exchange.

    The New York Authorities initially reacted by carting the statue off to the local police compound. Local pressure resulted in the authouriesfinding an appropriate location for this addition to the streetscape.

    Perhaps in these more difficult times it should be balanced with statue of a giant bear.

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  • Address: Broadway and Front Street very near to Wall Street
  • Directions: Head For Wall Street and look out for it

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    Wall Street: Federal Hall National Memorial
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  • At present (2005) closed for reconstruction, Federal Hall is one of New York's finest Greek revival buildings. Built in 1842 on the same site as the former British City Hall (wherein Congress once met and George Washington took his oath of office in 1789), this building actually came after those events. The statue of Washington came long afterwards in 1883. Inside (when the building is again open to the public) there are many historical exhibits, including treasury displays when this building served as a custom house (before becoming a memorial). Free admission.

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  • Address: 26 Wall Street (Nassau Street)
  • Phone: (212) 825-6888
  • Directions: far downtown by the New York Stock Exchange

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    Wall Street: Stock Exchange
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  • New York Stock Exchange - New York City
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    This is a surprising looking building to me. I think of the Stock Exchange as being very sleek and new and when you see the architecture surrounding it, you should be surprised as I was that the buildings retain some history. I'm so glad of that. Everyone must take pictures in that area.
    It was cordoned off with police tape...supposedly to restrain terrorists, I suppose. I rather doubt that these barricades are going to prevent anything....but I'm seeing them more and more in NYC and in DC. Perhaps we are supposed to live in fear....but I do not. They will not take my feeling of freedom from me. (Sorry...just a little standing on the soap box there)

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    Wall Street: Charging Bull
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  • We were walking down Wall Street from Trinity Church and turned up Broadway (I think that's how it happened) and came upon this 7000 pound bull from the rear. They say that it was delivered in front of the New York Stock Exchange in 1989 and later moved to Bowling Green. I can't imagine the place without it now. I heard that the bull was supposed to have been put up for sale in 2004 (although kept where it is), but I didn't hear if anyone bought it.

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  • Address: Broadway and Whitehall Sts.
  • Directions: Take the 4, 5 train to Wall Street and go east to Broadway. I think. :-)

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