Exchange Place, Jersey City
Exchange Place is a district of Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey that is sometimes referred to as Wall Street West due to the concentration of financial companies that have offices there. The namesake is a square, about 200 feet long, at the foot of Montgomery Street at the waterfront of the Hudson River. This square was created by landfilling the shore at Paulus Hook, and has been a major transportation hub since the colonial era.
View of Exchange Place from One World Trade Center, 2023
Aerial view of Exchange Place in 2010
Jersey City 9/11 Memorial
Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from Exchange Place
Wall Street West is a name used by real estate developers, city officials, and news media in the United States to call particular streets or places west of Manhattan, New York City that have a high concentration of Wall Street financial companies or a major exchange. The most notable for that is along the Hudson River waterfront of Jersey City, New Jersey. By the early 2020s, the construction of residential skyscrapers downtown made median rental rates in Jersey City among the highest of any city in the United States.
Downtown Jersey City's waterfront, found along the Hudson River, is dubbed Wall Street West.
Exchange Place, the southern part of Wall Street West in Jersey City, in 2010
Montgomery Street in San Francisco's financial district