Wall Street goers and residents cannot get enough of the Charging Bull and are proud to have Wall Street as its home.
The Charging Bull stands in Bowling Green Park near Wall Street in FiDi. It is a 7,100 lb bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica that stands at 11 ft tall and 16 feet long. He spent $360,000 to create, cast, and install the sculpture following the 1987 stock market crash. It was Di Modica’s idea to create the bull in an act of “guerrilla art,” he drove to Lower Manhattan on December 15, 1989 and installed the sculpture underneath a 60-foot Christmas tree in the front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas girl to the people of New York. The bull was seized by police and placed in an impound lot.
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