Explore Wall Street’s Secrets in New Self-Guided Audio Walking Tour
Explore Wall Street’s Secrets in New Walking Tour
PLACE: Wall Street (start at newsstand outside 40 Wall Street, btwn Broad & William Sts)
DATE: Saturdays in October, starting Oct 9th
TIME: 2–4:30 pm
Autumn in New York: the best time of the year in the city. Time to see the fall foliage. Feel the crispness in the air. Smell the wood smoke. And listen to the screams of panicked stockbrokers from the New York Stock Exchange on your mobile media player. This October, commemorate the season of stock market crashes— including the anniversary of the 2008 financial meltdown—with Curb Exchange, a new self-guided audio walking tour of Wall Street that will be offered Saturdays in October, beginning October 9th at the Conflux Festival, from 2–4:30 pm in New York City’s Financial District.
Curb Exchange is a unique audio walking tour that uncovers forgotten stories from the past 200 years of Wall Street’s history to help answer the question on all our minds after the 2008 crisis: why? Innovatively structured, Curb Exchange is made up of eight short 10-minute audio walking tours, each set in a different era of American history. On each tour, the narrator (and die-hard New Yorker) Bob leads you to the sites in the Financial District that were significant during that time period to hear biting commentary and dramatic reenactments of the stories on the very streets where they all happened. During your walk, you can also browse through a copy of the Curb Exchange newspaper, a publication designed for the tour that features excerpts and photos from historical news articles about the stories you’re listening to. Want to know where crooked Gilded Age financiers dined before fleeing the city for stock fraud? Or why a prominent progressive writer staged protests outside an oil baron’s headquarters in 1914? Or who could possibly have bombed Wall Street in 1920? This tour will reveal the secrets of Wall Street’s past while casting light on what may have led to our most recent financial meltdown.
Curb Exchange was written and directed by A.E. Souzis, a writer and media artist based in New York City. For more information, please visit www.aesouzis.com.
The Curb Exchange walking tour will be offered free to the public from 2–4:30 pm Saturdays in October—beginning with its premiere on October 9th at the Conflux Festival—and continuing through Saturday October 16th, 23rd and 30th. To participate, download the free audio mp3s of the tour from the website and meet up at the newsstand outside 40 Wall Street at 2 pm. Audio downloads and more information are available at www.curbexchange.org.
For more information on listing this show or for press coverage, please call 718-541-6416 or email curbexchange [at] gmail.com.