The Charging Bull at Bowling Green Park was never supposed to be here. Sculptor Arturo Di Modica created his sixteen-foot, three-and-a-half-ton bronze bull with one destination in mind: the New York Stock Exchange.
On the night of 15 December 1989, he and a group of friends loaded it onto a truck and deposited it outside the Exchange as an unsanctioned gift to the city. Commuters arriving the next morning found an enraged bull glaring at them from beneath a Christmas tree.
Di Modica, who arrived in America with nothing, spent $360,000 of his own money on the work. The city eventually moved it to Bowling Green Park, where it has stood, technically temporarily, for over 30 years.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the Bull's complicated legacy, connecting it to the Fearless Girl's arrival and removal, and to the long, turbulent history of the street it was always meant to face.