Little Board

Little Board - Little Board is a slang term referring to the American Stock Exchange (AMEX). It also described any exchange that is not the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Little board was to refer to the New York Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange, which closed its doors in the 1920's. Diagonally across New Street from the New York Stock Exchange, the corner of Exchange Place stands a dull red building of queer proportions which is the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange of New York, familiarly known as the little board and disrespectfully referred to by habitus of New Street as the morgue.