[PHOTO] Financial District, New York City
Jul. 3rd, 2012 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI owe thanks to Alexander for showing me around the Financial District of New York City, in lower Manhattan, on my final full day in that metropolis. He took me down a route that included, as centerpiece, a walk down lower Broadway past Trinity Church and down Wall Street to the New York Stock Exchange and thereabouts.
It was fun to walk about the beating heart of American capitalism, but fun also to walk about the longest-settled areas of New York City. Much of the Financial District is coterminous with New Amsterdam, the iconic neighbourhood's narrow streets and monumental buildings and occasional patch of cobblestones evoking a dense past.
The streets are packed.
The buildings of New York tower like mountains.
Another look at a narrow street.
Crossing in front of Trinity Church's graveyard, on lower Broadway.
Looking south down Wall Street.
The side entrance to the NYSE, on the northeastern corner, looks almost modest for such a noteworthy institution.
The giant American flag draped in front of the New York Stock Exchange--a post-9/11 innovation--is certainly eye-catching.
Broad Street extends down past the NYSE.
The NYSE, facing Broad Street.
The intersection of William and Wall caught my eye.
It was fun to walk about the beating heart of American capitalism, but fun also to walk about the longest-settled areas of New York City. Much of the Financial District is coterminous with New Amsterdam, the iconic neighbourhood's narrow streets and monumental buildings and occasional patch of cobblestones evoking a dense past.
The streets are packed.
The buildings of New York tower like mountains.
Another look at a narrow street.
Crossing in front of Trinity Church's graveyard, on lower Broadway.
Looking south down Wall Street.
The side entrance to the NYSE, on the northeastern corner, looks almost modest for such a noteworthy institution.
The giant American flag draped in front of the New York Stock Exchange--a post-9/11 innovation--is certainly eye-catching.
Broad Street extends down past the NYSE.
The NYSE, facing Broad Street.
The intersection of William and Wall caught my eye.
