Wall street is downtown. Below trinity almost to the Battery. It runs from Broadway to Pearl and water street from east to west. It is a one way street until water street (at 111 Wall Citibank).Upper east side is 70 blocks north and will cost you about $25 in cab fare unless he rips you off and goes through the holland tunnel via jersey back through the Lincoln tunnel! They sometimes do this to avoid traffic jams in Manhattan.You won t want to walk it unless you have a good hour and a half. But you could take the $1.50 PATH train from the Trade Center station to 34th street and hop a bus or a subway.
Wall Street is at the bottom tip of Manhattan. Check it out on a map of NYC. The upper east side could mean anything from the East 60s on up. When I ve been in NY, I have often walked the entire distance. Every 20 city blocks in New York equal about a mile. It s not really that far. It could take an hour or so to do that walk, but walking goes quickly in NY; there s so much to see.
Its about a 20 minute subway ride from East 86th Street to Wall Street. Just take the #4 or 5 subway lines (Green Lines on the subway map) going southbound.Good luckNative New Yorker
it s not walkable but i d say its a $20 cab ride or 30-40 minute train ride depending on if you get express. also if you have to go across town i d add on another 5-10 mins. =] Happy travels.