NYSE: The Bell

This post is a guide and virtual tour of the New York Stock Exchange NYSE headquarters in Lower Manhattan. The NYSE used to be open to public tours, but since the events of September 11, , security around the Exchange building is very tight and public tours of the inside of the Exchange are no longer offered, with the exception of certain school groups and invited guests see below for more information.

Finance Tours of Wall Street. Tours of Lower Manhattan. See Gold at the Federal Reserve. Less recognizable, and in fact barely noticeable, is the actual entrance to the building at 11 Wall Street.

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With its modest bronze-framed door between two columns one could easily miss it, if it did not have the name inscribed above the door. The New York Stock Exchange is located at the intersection of Broad Street and Wall Street. The massive facade of the building is actually not on Wall Street, but on Broad. Click here for directions to the NYSE. As you can see in the map image below, the NYSE is in walking distance from several New York City subway lines.

When you turn the corner to see the Broad Street side of the Exchange, you will be standing in a location of great historical significance.

Prior to , businessmen who engaged in trading of goods and money met under a tree to transact business. It was a sycamore tree but known more commonly as a buttonwood tree. Thus in , when 24 stockbrokers signed an agreement that would regulate their dealings, they named it the Buttonwood Agreement.

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In its name would be shortened in to the New York Stock Exchange. As the Exchange grew in business, a larger, grander building was needed. Post was the architect known for his neo-classical buildings around New York including the glorious Customs House at Bowling Green.

It took two years to complete the Exchange and costs ran over the estimated price. Above the columns is a pediment with a sculpture designed by John Q. Ward who also designed the over-life-size standing statue of George Washington on the steps of Federal Hall diagonally across from the Exchange.

To her left are representations of mining and agriculture and on her right, symbols of industry, s cience and invention, all sources of American prosperity.

Back in the s, there were 5, people working on the trading floor. But with the advance of technology and paperless transactions, the number of traders on the ground has dwindled to a mere people and is now a much calmer, quieter environment. Click the image for the interactive degree view of the main trading floor. The ringing of the bell at 9am and again at 4pm is more than a gesture — it guarantees the marketplace that no trades will take place before the opening or after the close of the market.

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Starting in the s, before microphones and loudspeakers were invented, used a large Chinese gong to let traders know to start or stop trading for the day. But in , when the Exchange moved to its current building, the gong was replaced by a brass bell which is now electrically operated. Each of the 4 trading areas of the NYSE has their own bell which operate synchronously from one single control panel. You can see a detailed video history of the Exchange bell here.

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