Love it or hate it, Wall Street remains a major New York Attraction

Love it or hate it, Wall Street remains a major New York Attraction Home to the New York Stock Exchange, the 8-block-long New York Financial District known as Wall Street attracts attention from around the world. It has been a global icon of high-level... More

Love it or hate it, Wall Street remains a major New York Attraction Home to the New York Stock Exchange, the 8-block-long New York Financial District known as Wall Street attracts attention from around the world. It has been a global icon of high-level business and finance since World War II and despite a flailing economy, Wall Street continues its high status to this day. In a conceptual sense, Wall Street represents financial and economic power and, to Americans, it can sometimes represent power politics that inspires a great controversy. From 2007 to 2010, Wall Street finance practices were blamed as one of the major causes of the mortgage crisis. The actual, literal Wall Street runs from Broadway to South Street. Its architecture is primarily representative of the Gilded Age although there are some art deco influences in the neighborhood. Some of the tallest building in the city are in the Wall Street neighborhood and many of the buildings are New York Landmarks including Fed Less