Editing Charging Bull (section)

==Description==
[[File:Bowling Green NYC Feb 2020 13.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|''Charging Bull'' is at the northern tip of Bowling Green.]]

The {{convert|7100|lb|kg|adj=on}} sculpture<ref name="nyt20041221"/> is in a cobblestone-paved [[traffic median]] of Broadway just north of Bowling Green.<ref name="Durante 2007"/> The sculpture is adjacent to [[26 Broadway]] to the east and [[Cunard Building (New York City)|25 Broadway]] to the west.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://new.mta.info/document/2461 |title=MTA Neighborhood Maps: Bowling Green (4)(5) |date=2018 |website=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority|mta.info]] |publisher=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] |access-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref> It stands {{convert|11|ft|m}} tall<ref name="nyt20041221">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/nyregion/the-bronze-bull-is-for-sale-but-there-are-a-few-conditions.html |title=The Bronze Bull Is for Sale, but There Are a Few Conditions |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=December 21, 2004 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 13, 2017 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and measures {{convert|16|ft|m}} long.<ref name="nyt19891216">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/16/nyregion/soho-gift-to-wall-st-a-3-1-2-ton-bronze-bull.html |title=SoHo Gift to Wall St.: A 3 1/2-Ton Bronze Bull |last=Mcfadden |first=Robert D. |date=December 16, 1989 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 13, 2017 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It depicts a [[bull]], the symbol of [[bull market|financial optimism and prosperity]], leaning back on its haunches and with its head lowered as if ready to charge. The sculpture is both a popular tourist destination, which draws thousands of people a day, as well as a symbol of [[Wall Street]] and the Financial District, being described as "one of the most iconic images of New York"<ref name="Pinto 2008">{{Cite web |first=Nick |last=Pinto |title='Charging Bull,' from Front to Back |website=Tribeca Trib |date=September 8, 2008 |url=http://tribecatrib.com/archives/newssept07/Bull.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908014825/http://tribecatrib.com/archives/newssept07/Bull.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 14, 2020}}</ref> and a "Wall Street icon."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greenfield |first1=Beth |first2=Robert |last2=Reid |first3=Ginger |last3=Adams Otis |title=New York City |publisher=Lonely Planet |publication-place=Footscray, Vic. London |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-74059-798-2 |oclc=70400334 |page=120}}</ref> Children also frequently climb the sculpture.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sommers |first=Carl |date=May 26, 1991 |title=Q and A |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/26/travel/q-and-a-325191.html |access-date=June 14, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In ''Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide'', Dianne Durante describes the sculpture:
<blockquote>The ''Bull''{{'}}s head is lowered, its nostrils flare, and its wickedly long, sharp horns are ready to gore; it's an angry, dangerous beast. The muscular body twists to one side, and the tail is curved like a lash: the ''Bull'' is also energetic and in motion.<ref name="Durante 2007">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1nMnB-2HgbwC&pg=PA259 |title=Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide |chapter=5: Charging Bull |last=Durante |first=Dianne L. |date=February 1, 2007 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=9780814719862}}</ref></blockquote>

The bronze color and hard, metallic texture of the sculpture's surface emphasize the brute force of the creature. The work was designed and placed so that viewers could walk around it, which also suggests the creature's own movement is unrestricted — a point reinforced by the twisting posture of the bull's body, according to Durante.

<blockquote>''Charging Bull'', then, shows an aggressive or even belligerent force on the move, but unpredictably...[I]t's not far-fetched to say the theme is the energy, strength, and unpredictability of the stock market.<ref name="Durante 2007"/></blockquote>

Di Modica told the ''[[New York Daily News]]'' in 1998:
<blockquote>That bull is one of an edition of five...I'm hoping the other four will be going to cities all over the world, whenever somebody buys them.<ref name="nydn19980531">{{Cite web |last=Singleton |first=Don |title=Rock Solid |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/rock-solid-article-1.789714 |access-date=June 14, 2020 |website=New York Daily News |date=May 31, 1998}}</ref></blockquote>