Absolutely not. Wall Street was called like that because the first residents were Walloons => Waalse Straat in dutch.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street …
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Why would Dutch people use an English word when the Dutch word for ‘wall’ is totally different? The ‘Waal straat’ probably refers to the Walloon settlers.
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New York is result of status quo, resulting in Treaty of Breda after the war and was traded with the Dutch for Surinam and an island in the East Indies.
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An Island called Run, that was the only place at the time to grow Nutmeg.
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It's so damn small, and so much of it is garden, park, vegetable patch!
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The Dutch also built a defensive moot filled stuffed with alligators and snakes. The area of the moot is now called Mott Street from Chatham Square to Bleecker Street.
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