When Stocks Came in From the Cold

A group of Curb regulars formed a real estate company and hired the architects Starrett & Van Vleck to design an exchange building, which opened in 1921 on Trinity Place, reaching back to Greenwich Street. Severe and classical, it might have been an opera house or a public library.
In 1931, as the New York Curb Exchange, the group rebuilt the Trinity Place side to more or less its present appearance. But it neglected to redo the Greenwich Street front, which still carries the old legend, New York Curb Market. In 1953 the Curb, long off the street, changed its name to the American Stock Exchange; it was acquired in 2008 by NYSE Amex Equities, a successor to the New York Stock Exchange.