Charging Bull at Bowling Green

Charging Bull at Bowling Green

Once we had walked Wall Street, I took my mom to Bowling Green to see the statue of the Charging Bull - because a trip to New York isn't complete without seeing that thing.

The Charging Bull is located at Bowling Green, New York's oldest - and possibly tiniest - public park. It is said that this is where Dutch settler Peter Minuit paid Native Americans the equivalent of $24 to purchase Manhattan Island.

The Charging Bull was permanently placed here after it mysteriously appeared in front of the New York Stock Exchange in 1989, two years after a market collapse. I've taken photos of both the front and back ends - the bull has not been castrated.