NEW YORK — It’s easy when walking around the financial district in lower Manhattan to be struck by the oldness of it: the winding streets carved out long before the nearly perfect grid farther north, the cobblestones in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
You could clearly spot the old days Tuesday night inside Broadstone Bar & Kitchen, a few minutes’ walk south of the NYSE. Attendees included employees of T. Rowe Price, the stalwart money manager founded in 1937, as well as folks from the Chicago Board Options Exchange and investment bank RBC Capital Markets, neither of which were born yesterday. Many wore suits adorned with NYSE name tags.