Description
The New York Stock Exchange, nicknamed "the Big Board", is the world's second-largest stock exchange, housed in a white marble temple on Broad Street at the corner of Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. Its building, opened in 1903, is a symbol of American money.
The sight is the facade: six columns 16 meters tall under a pediment crowded with eleven figures of commerce and industry around a central figure of Integrity. The building has been closed to the public since September 11, 2001.
Across Broad Street stands Fearless Girl, Kristen Visbal's statue, moved here in 2018.
The pediment's marble figures began to crumble, and in 1936 they were replaced with lead-coated sheet metal versions, a change the exchange kept secret for eighteen years. In 1967 Abbie Hoffman and his friends threw fake dollar bills from the visitors' gallery onto the trading floor; three months later the gallery was sealed behind bulletproof glass.
The sight is the facade: six columns 16 meters tall under a pediment crowded with eleven figures of commerce and industry around a central figure of Integrity. The building has been closed to the public since September 11, 2001.
Across Broad Street stands Fearless Girl, Kristen Visbal's statue, moved here in 2018.
The pediment's marble figures began to crumble, and in 1936 they were replaced with lead-coated sheet metal versions, a change the exchange kept secret for eighteen years. In 1967 Abbie Hoffman and his friends threw fake dollar bills from the visitors' gallery onto the trading floor; three months later the gallery was sealed behind bulletproof glass.