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Wall Street — From Windmills to World Finance

This lively history walk follows the streets used by Manhattanites for 384 years.

It introduces tour-takers to the oldest part of the city and shows how the metropolis and the center of world finance came to be what it is today. Amid streets whose names commemorate the 17th century Dutch market, the mill used to grind grain, and the canal used to trap beaver, participants will discover what remains of New Amsterdam, as well as the buildings, people and events that once started a new nation, and recreated the area as its financial center. The Financial District boasts many of Manhattan’s most famous historic sites, including:

  • Federal Hall – site of George Washington’s inauguration
  • Battery Park – military statues and a world-class harbor
  • Trinity Church – long head of the Episcopal Church of New York
  • Fraunces Tavern – with its Revolutionary War associations
  • The New York Stock Exchange – by far the world’s busiest
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York – site of more gold than anywhere else

These days, enormous shifts have come to the neighborhood. Dozens of skyscrapers have gone residential, and new restaurants are flowering. We will examine the new changes in a historic context, and explore the areas of greatest change and potential.











When: Tue., Jan. 30, 2018 at 10:30 am
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $35
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This lively history walk follows the streets used by Manhattanites for 384 years.

It introduces tour-takers to the oldest part of the city and shows how the metropolis and the center of world finance came to be what it is today. Amid streets whose names commemorate the 17th century Dutch market, the mill used to grind grain, and the canal used to trap beaver, participants will discover what remains of New Amsterdam, as well as the buildings, people and events that once started a new nation, and recreated the area as its financial center. The Financial District boasts many of Manhattan’s most famous historic sites, including:

  • Federal Hall – site of George Washington’s inauguration
  • Battery Park – military statues and a world-class harbor
  • Trinity Church – long head of the Episcopal Church of New York
  • Fraunces Tavern – with its Revolutionary War associations
  • The New York Stock Exchange – by far the world’s busiest
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York – site of more gold than anywhere else

These days, enormous shifts have come to the neighborhood. Dozens of skyscrapers have gone residential, and new restaurants are flowering. We will examine the new changes in a historic context, and explore the areas of greatest change and potential.

Buy tickets/get more info now