Wall Street

If you love movie, chances are you have already heard of "The Wolf of Wall Street". The movie was nominated for a couple of awards including five nominations at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony: Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese, Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for Winter, and Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor nominations for DiCaprio and Hill, respectively. Wall street itself is a financial district located in Lower Manhattan. It is easily reached after visiting Liberty Island from Battery Park. In fact, before entering the complex, don't miss the charging bull statue recognised as symbol of Wall Street and even the city itself. A little story about this bronze aggressive bull.. It was created by Arturo di Modica whose spent some $360,000 of his own money for the construction. The bull was placed without permission in front of the New York Stock Exchange and later moved to Bowling Green Park, its current home. The same brilliant artist built two more bulls to be placed in Shanghai and Amsterdam with similar philosophic messages on them. The one in Manhattan was a kind of reminder for Americans to bounce back after the stock market crash in 1987.

Going further about 3 minutes walk, you will enter the wall street. The name "wall street" was traced back to 17th century of the 4 meters tall wall built by Dutch colonists in that area as protections from Native Americans and English attacks.

Here, don't miss the New York Stock Exchange Building. This building the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalisation of the listed companies. I don't even know what does it means.haha. Anyway, the building is interesting and certainly important.

Next on the corner of the street, meet the Federal Hall. Despite of it's location in the market complex, the building has nothing to do with trading business. It was a USA's first capitol building but now serves as national monument. Some important historical events occurred here, named the inauguration of George Washington as the first president of USA, and the first congress to compose the Bill of Right. This hall is open for public on weekdays (Monday - Friday) 09:00-17:00 with free admission fee. You may check here https://www.nps.gov/feha/planyourvisit/index.htm.

Lastly, visit the Trinity Church admired for its fine Gothic architectures. It was a tallest building in Manhattan, back in 1864 when the building was finished. You can visit this site for more information http://goo.gl/A4tAZm.