Museum Celebrates Wall Street's Birthday

On March 13, 1653 the newly-formed government of New Amsterdam in its first act voted to build a wall at the northern tip of the small colony from river to river. It was that wooden post wall ordered 357 years ago that led to naming the street exactly where the wall was built, “Wall Street.”

Friday, March 12, Museum founder John Herzog presided over a celebration of the anniversary of Wall Street's founding in the Museum’s new café. Among the guests in attendance were Caron Pinkus, Assistant Principal of the Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women, and Bernadette Hitt, Manager of Tiffany & Co. on Wall Street.