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We meet at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street, next to TD Bank at 12:00 noon. The Tour goes for 1 hr and 30 min
Subway 1 and R: Rector Street stop, Subway 4 and 5: Wall Street Stop
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Wall Street Tours Every day - rain or shine
at 12:00
noon. Your PayPal receipt is your ticket. $20 per
person, kids under 15 are free, the tour guide will sell additional tickets for cash at the beginning of tour |
Wall Street Guided Tours |
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New York Stock Exchange
The trading floor at the Exchange
Armstice Day
Occupy Protest
View of Wall Street from corner of Broad Street, 1867: The building on the left was the U.S. Customs House. Today it's the home of the Federal Hall National Memorial |
We are NYC Licensed Sightseeing Tour Guides with many years of experience. Some of our Tour Guides are current and former Wall Street traders and analysts. Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or signifying New York-based financial interests. It is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including NASDAQ, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange. Anchored by Wall Street, New York City is one of the world's principal financial centers. There are varying accounts about how
the Dutch-named "de Waal Straat" got its name. A
generally accepted version is that the name of the street name was derived
from an earthen wall on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam
settlement, perhaps to protect against English colonial encroachment or
incursions by native Americans. A conflicting explanation is that Wall Street
was named after Walloon -- possibly a
Dutch abbreviation for Walloon being Waal. Among the first settlers that embarked on the ship
"Nieu Nederlandt" in 1624 were 30 Walloon families. In the 1640s, basic picket and plank
fences denoted plots and residences in the colony. Later, on behalf of the Dutch West India
Company, Peter
Stuyvesant, using both African slaves and white colonists,
collaborated with the city government in the construction of a more
substantial fortification,
a strengthened 12-foot (4 m) wall. In 1685 surveyors laid out Wall
Street along the lines of the original stockade. The wall started at Pearl
Street, which was the shoreline at that time, crossing the Indian path
Broadway and ending at the other shoreline (today's Trinity Place), where it
took a turn south and ran along the shore until it ended at the old fort. In
these early days, local merchants and traders would gather at disparate spots
to buy and sell shares and bonds, and over time divided themselves into two
classes—auctioneers and dealers..
The rampart was
removed in 1699. In the late 18th century, there was a
buttonwood tree at the foot of Wall
Street under which traders
and speculators would gather to trade securities. The benefit was being in
close proximity to each other In 1792, traders formalized their association
with the Buttonwood
Agreement which was the origin of the New York Stock Exchange. The idea of the agreement was to make
the market more "structured" and "without the manipulative
auctions", with a commission structure. Persons signing the agreement
agreed to charge each other a standard commission rate; persons not signing
could still participate but would be charged a higher commission for dealing.[ In 1789, Wall Street was the scene of
the United States' first presidential inauguration when George Washington took the oath of office on
the balcony of Federal
Hall on April 30, 1789. This was also the location of the passing of the Bill Of
Rights. In the cemetery of Trinity Church, Alexander Hamilton,
who was the first Treasury secretary and "architect of the early United
States financial system," is buried Licensed NYC Tour Guides with many years of experience
providing sightseeing tours of Wall Street. |
The Bull
Exchange at night
The original city map called the Castello Plan from 1660, showing the wall on the right side
Wall Street in 1797
Wall Street, as it looked at the time of Washington's 1789 inauguration |
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