WALL STREET, Introduction

Hi, my name’s Scott, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: Wall Street.

Wall Street is the hub of one of the most important business districts in the USA.

The name of the street, widely used to refer to the emblematic New York Stock Exchange, derives from a barrier that was built in the first half of the 17th century by the Dutch colonists to mark the northern boundary of the original New Amsterdam, later to become New York. This “wall” was subsequently strengthened and reinforced with palisades to protect against raids first by the Native Americans and later by the British, who effectively took it down altogether in 1699. So if you were hoping to find even just a fragment of the wall, all that remains today is a memory, forever linked with the name of the main street of the neighborhood....