Wall street is one of the most attractive streets of new York. It's small, but here beats the pulse of the world monetary, gain power and crumbling financial Empire.

Street with a total length of 1100 meters and is situated South of Manhattan, between Trinity Church and South street. About the origin of its name I bet one of the versions here in the XVII century housed a protective earthen rampart on the Northern border of Dutch new Amsterdam. Street along the shaft are called in Dutch "de Waal Straat".

Trade and financial nature street have gained about the same time: in 1711 then came the first official city market on which traded slaves. Developed here and civilized business: from local sycamore was going traders who traded securities. In 1792 under a tree signed Battonvudskogo agreement marked the beginning of the new York stock exchange.

The growing business potential of the street meant the growth of her fame. In 1789 the first U.S. President George Washington took the oath on the balcony of Federal hall, the first Capitol of the United States. Here was taken the bill of rights – ten amendments to the Constitution, which established the basic rights and freedoms of Americans.

After the Civil war, new York became the banking capital of the country. In 1884 journalist Charles Henry Dow began tracking the share prices of eleven large companies – so was born the Dow Jones. Five years later, report DOE turned to the newspaper "wall street journal" today is one of the most influential business Newspapers in the world.

The stock-market crash of 1929 caused panic on wall street: the crowd of investors and shareholders mad near the stock exchange and banks, there was a wave of suicides. The financial sector recovered only after the Second world war, the most powerful impetus to the development of wall street gave its policy of tax cuts President Reagan.

Local skyscrapers – the highest in the city, street at times resembles a narrow canyon. The most famous buildings of wall street – the old Trinity Church, skyscraper wall street, 14th on the corner of broad street (he wears the semblance of the mausoleum of Halicarnassus), Federal hall, which now houses national memorial, new York stock exchange, skyscraper trump. In that part of the street where allowed to drive cars, its width is barely enough for a single lane. But since 2011 in this tiny space from time to time these contractions happen the police with the adepts of the protest movement "Occupiers street".

Magical image of this street has applied in his works writers Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Tom Wolfe. Here craved success hero Charlie sheen, who starred in the Oliver stone movie "wall street". And in the third "die hard" criminals through the ruined subway station is "wall street" broke into the cellars of the Federal reserve Bank, and took the gold on the trucks. But Bruce Willis, of course, ruined their plans.