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The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a 63-acre (25 ha) listed area.
An additional estimate from 2007 by Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute was that the securities industry accounts for 4.7 percent of the jobs in New York City but 20.7 percent of its wages, and he estimated there were 175,000 securities-industries jobs in New York (both Wall Street area and midtown) paying an average of $350,000 annually. [20]
The museum was founded in 1988 as the Museum of American Financial History but was renamed the Museum of American Finance in 2005. [2] Until December 2006, it was located at 26 Broadway. [3] On January 11, 2008, the museum opened in a new location at 48 Wall Street, the former headquarters of the Bank of New York. [4]
History of New York City; Lenape and New Netherland, to 1664 New Amsterdam British and Revolution, 1665–1783 Federal and early American, 1784–1854 Tammany and Consolidation, 1855–1897 (Civil War, 1861–1865) Early 20th century, 1898–1945 Post–World War II, 1946–1977 Modern and post-9/11, 1978–present: See also; Transportation
Exchange Place is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City. The street runs five blocks between Trinity Place in the west and Hanover Street in the east. [1] Exchange Place was created by 1657 as part of the street plan for the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (modern-day Lower Manhattan), as recorded in the Castello ...
In 1986, I wrote a series of feature stories for Investors Business Daily about the five-year anniversary of American Express's acquisition of Shearson Loeb Rhoades, then the second-largest ...
According to James Stillman, 55 Wall Street's 1900s expansion was meant to be an "outward and visible sign of power and combination". [28] [164] One writer characterized the design as "a temple of finance" that was "one of the most opulent banking houses in the United States", [19] and The New York Times dubbed it a "temple of capitalism".
Art Cashin, a renowned market pundit and the UBS director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange, has died at the age of 83, UBS said. Cashin, once dubbed "Wall Street's version of ...