Financial District (Manhattan)

As the Financial District of south-eastern part of Manhattan in New York City is called near Wall Street. The Battery Park and Battery Park City, the settlement can not be attributed to the Financial District. The Financial District contains the Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange and the offices of many financial companies and law firms. There also are the offices of the publisher Dow Jones, of the newspaper The Wall Street Journal published and the stock index Dow Jones Industrial Average is published.

Other important streets of the neighborhood are the Broad Street and Nassau Street, on which there was in the years 1789-1790 ( near the intersection with Wall Street ), the first seat of the U.S. House of Representatives: the Federal Hall, built in 1700. There, the first U.S. president, George Washington, was inaugurated. Are at this point today a statue of George Washington and a building from 1842, which currently serves as a museum.

The area was settled in the 17th century, when in 1625 (WIC ) was founded the settlement Nieuw Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company.