Wall Street is a street in New York that follows the palisade raised by the first settlers of Dutch New Amsterdam; once the settlement’s edge, it is now a center of trade and the boundary of the governor’s authority.
| Type | Street, trade district |
| City | New York (one account: Boston) |
| Spanish entry | Wall Street |
History
“At this time it really was the street of the wall, because that is where the wall is.” What were “the outskirts of the wall” is now the heart of the city, “a fairly old place”. Merchants say “there is nothing like the Wall Street area for these matters of trade”.
Description
- A tavern where magic items are traded; jewelry and perfume houses.
- The grounds of Trinity Church, “the ones that burned”: the church is being rebuilt with donations, since “the other guy was putting in cash”. Period maps circle the burned grounds.
- Toward Canal Street “there are still canals” and “the boatmen still row”, bringing oysters.
- It lies near the arrival docks: “Wall Street is close, but it’s night.”
Role
It is a place of trade “more public, and also more hated” than other markets. The governor controls the territories south of Wall Street “and some things a little to the north”. A foundation there holds weekly meetings with “analogy-type speeches, with a view to the economy”, and there is a project to found a bank.
Conflicting accounts
- The wall was either “the wall that protected the Indians” or a Dutch wall “to prevent the coming of the Pequod Indians”.
- One account places it in Boston, “a fairly old place in the city called Wall Street”, tied to a bank project and the house [[en/mirando-hacia-el-futuro|Mirando hacia el Futuro]] (“Looking Toward the Future”); all others place it in New York. Whether these are two streets or one is unsettled.
- A Wolf Street, “a place of public trade, more public and more hated”, may be Wall Street misheard; unconfirmed.
Open questions
- The wall’s form and whether it still stands.
- The foundation’s name, members and link to the bank; who runs the magic-item tavern.
- The date of the church fire and the benefactor’s name; prices and distances.