wall street
A place of wealth and a place of death *because* not only is the NY Stock Exchange on Wall Street, but at the end is the Trinity Church cemetary, with a bunch of dead souls. The reason it is named "Wall" Street is because when NYC was just a village, the residents built a WALL out of pallisades (wood) as protection from the wild things in the forests north (around Christopher street).
Example:
Damn, one day you're a millionaire on Wall Street, the next you're in the Trinity yard at the other end.
Damn, one day you're a millionaire on Wall Street, the next you're in the Trinity yard at the other end.