Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east.
The term "Wall Street" has become a common noun for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry, New York–based financial interests, or the Financial District itself. Wall Street physically contains several banking headquarters and skyscrapers, as well as the New York Stock Exchange Building and Federal Hall National Memorial.
There is an account that the name of the street was derived from a wall or a wooden palisade on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. It was built to protect against potential incursions from Native Americans, pirates, and the English. The wall was built of dirt and 15-foot (4.6 m) wooden planks, measuring 2,340 feet (710 m) long and 9 feet (2.7 m) tall.
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