Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Trinity Church
held its first service at the western end of Wall Street in 1698, but this strik-
ing Neo-Gothic version - the third model - only went up in 1846, and for fifty years was the
city's tallest building. Trinity has the air of an English church (Richard Upjohn, its architect,
was English), especially the sheltered graveyard; resting place of the first Secretary of the
Treasury, Alexander Hamilton and steamboat king Robert Fulton.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
11 Wall St. Subway #4, #5, #2, #3 to Wall St.
www.nyse.com
.
Closed to the public.
MAP
Behind the imposing Neoclassical facade of the
New York Stock Exchange
(on Broad St
and usually draped with a giant US flag), the purse strings of the capitalist world are pulled.
First established in 1817, two to three billion shares are now traded and $50 billion changes
hands on an average day. Owing to security concerns, the public can no longer view the
frenzied trading floor.
