New York, New York: Wall Street Bull - Good Luck Burnishing
The famous angry bronze bull of the financial markets. Visitors frequently rub part of its anatomy for investment luck.
- Address:
- Broadway, New York, NY
- Directions:
- Lower Broadway in Bowling Green Park, a block northeast of Battery Park, where State St. splits off of Broadway.
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Amazing to see so many tourists waiting to get their picture taken with the bull. They've got it roped off, with someone coordinating the picture-taking.
[Drumbabe, 02/01/2012]
This is the charging bull located on Wall Street, just north of Bowling Green Park in Manhattan.
[Erik Lander, 03/09/2007]I was reading your essay on statues that get rubbed for luck in various places. You speak of animal statues -- there is one animal statue that has been rubbed in a decidedly different place, however.
Down in the NYC's Financial District, there has long stood a statue of a bull (as in "the bull market", I presume). It's near the Stock Exchange, and as such, stockbrokers pass by it every day. I read a while back that if you look closely, you will notice that the testicles on the statue are brilliantly burnished -- from the hands of myriad stockbrokers rubbing the statue there every day for luck on their way to work.
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The 13-foot-long, 3.5-ton bronze statue, "Charging Bull," was Italian sculptor Arturo Di Modica's statement about the stock market crash of October 1987. Without permission, he placed the bull in front of the Stock Exchange on the night of December 15, 1989 (It was later moved a few blocks southwest to its current spot). Di Modica sells reduced-size copies of the statue to the superrich for $650,000 apiece.