Wall Street

A map of Wall Street and streets near it.

Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It runs southeast from Broadway, through the Financial District to South Street on the East River. It is home to the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange and Federal Hall. Most headquarters of many other American exchanges NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NYMEX, NYBOT are also run from Wall Street.

Wall Street Media

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  Wall Street Sign (1-9)

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  The original city map, called the Castello Plan, from 1660, showing the wall on the right side

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  New Amsterdam's wall depicted on tiles in the Wall Street subway station

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  A slave market near Wall Street c. 1730

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  An engraving from 1855, showing a conjectural view of Wall Street, including the original Federal Hall, as it probably looked at the time of George Washington's inauguration, 1789

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  View of Wall Street from corner of Broad Street, 1867. On the left is the sub-Treasury building, now the Federal Hall National Memorial.

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  Wall Street c. 1870-87

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  Wall Street bombing, 1920. Federal Hall National Memorial is at the right.

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  A crowd at Wall and Broad Streets after the 1929 crash, with the New York Stock Exchange Building is on the right. The majority of people are congregating in Wall Street on the left between the "House of Morgan" (23 Wall Street) and Federal Hall National Memorial (26 Wall Street).

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  1 Wall Street, at Wall Street and Broadway