Wall Street facts for kids

A map of Wall Street and streets near it.

Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It runs southeast from Broadway, through the Financial District to South Street on the East River. It is home to the New York Stock Exchange, the world's largest stock exchange and Federal Hall. Most headquarters of many other American exchanges NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, NYMEX, NYBOT are also run from Wall Street.

Images for kids

Street sign
The original city map called the Castello Plan from 1660, showing the wall on the right side
An engraving from 1855, showing a conjectural view of Wall Street, including the original Federal Hall, as it probably looked at the time of George Washington's inauguration, 1789.
View of Wall Street from corner of Broad Street, 1867. On the left is the sub-Treasury building, now the Federal Hall National Memorial.
A crowd at Wall and Broad streets after the 1929 crash. The New York Stock Exchange is on the right. The majority of people are congregating in Wall Street on the left between the "House of Morgan" (23 Wall Street) and Federal Hall National Memorial (26 Wall Street).
1 Wall Street, at Wall Street and Broadway
Trinity Church looking west on Wall Street.
Federal Hall National Memorial
US headquarters of Deutsche Bank on Wall Street in 2010.
Street sign for Wall Street at the corner with Broadway, in front of 1 Wall Street
Pier 11