Where Is the Charging Bull Statue? (And Where Fearless Girl Went)

Where it actually is

The bull stands on the cobbled island at the top of Bowling Green, the small oval park at the bottom of Broadway. That's the part people get wrong: it is not on Wall Street, and it's not outside the New York Stock Exchange. If you walk down Wall Street looking for it, you'll miss it entirely.

From our building on John Street, the route is simple: Broadway, south, and keep going. You'll pass Trinity Church where Broadway meets Wall Street, carry on for another five minutes, and the crowd tells you you've arrived. About 12 minutes at a normal pace. By subway, the 4 and 5 stop at Bowling Green, which puts you out beside the park; the R and W at Whitehall Street and the 1 at South Ferry are each a couple of minutes away on foot.

When to go if you want a photo

Early. The statue is outdoors and never closes, so the only variable is how many people are standing between you and it. Before about 8am on a weekday you'll often have it to yourself. From mid-morning through late afternoon there's a queue at the head, and a second, slower one at the back end. Evenings thin out again, and the bull is lit well enough that a night photo works.

Where Fearless Girl is now

She's on Broad Street, facing the New York Stock Exchange. Fearless Girl went up opposite the bull at Bowling Green in March 2017 and moved to the Exchange in December 2018, so any guide telling you to see the two together is out of date. Seeing both is still easy. From the bull, walk back north on Broadway and turn right at Wall Street; she's a few minutes along, in front of the Exchange building. Bull to girl to the Wall Street corner is about 20 minutes if you don't linger.

What it costs

Nothing. It's a public sculpture on a public street. No ticket, no queue you have to pay to skip, nobody official collecting anything.

We'd treat it as a five-minute stop rather than an outing. Battery Park is another five minutes downhill from Bowling Green, with the harbor and the Staten Island Ferry terminal at Whitehall right there, so it's an easy thing to fold into a walk you were doing anyway. If you're staying with us, it's close enough to knock off before breakfast and be back in your kitchen with coffee by 8.30.