Hardly Anyone Is Actually Inside Wall Street’s Big Office Towers

A study of mobile phones found foot traffic inside New York City’s financial districts declining after a steady rise during the summer. 

The slowdown is a major cause for alarm for the local businesses and retailers that have historically served and relied on Manhattan's office workers.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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Downtown, at Goldman Sachs, the thin crowd has thinned further.

Near Times Square, at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America, foot traffic has fallen too. The same is true over on Park Avenue, at JPMorgan.