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r Charging Bull
Broadway at Bowling Green.
Map 1 C4. q Bowling Green.
∑ chargingbull.com
At 1am on December 15, 1989,
sculptor Arturo Di Modica
(b. 1941) and 30 friends
unloaded his 7,000-lb (3,200-kg)
Charging Bull bronze statue in
front of the New York Stock
Exchange. The group had eight
minutes between police patrols
to place the sculpture, but they
managed to in just five. The
bull was later taken away for
obstructing traffic and lacking a
permit. Public outcry ensued and
Arturo Di Modica’s iconic Charging Bull statue, at the southern end of Broadway the Parks Department gave it a
“temporary” stomping ground
q Battery Park City housed in a remarkable six- on Broadway, where it remains
& Irish Hunger sided building, symbolizing to this day as the unofficial
Memorial the six million Jews who died mascot of Wall Street.
under the Nazis, as well as the Di Modica created the sculp-
7 Battery Park City. Map 1 A3. six points of the Star of David. ture after the 1987 stock-market
q Rector St. The poignant and informative crash, to symbolize the “strength,
collection begins with the power, and hope of the American
Construction of the former World practicalities and rituals of people for the future.” It took
Trade Center resulted in a million everyday Eastern European him two years to complete, at
cubic yards of landfill, which was Jewish life, pre-1930. It then a personal cost of $350,000.
poured into the Hudson River moves on to the horrors of
to form a lovely neigh borhood the Holocaust, and ends with
of restaurants, apartments, the establishment of Israel and
sculptures, and gardens. The subsequent Jewish achieve-
1.2-mile (2-km) esplanade along ments. The audio guides are
the river offers spectacular narrated by Meryl Streep and
views of the Statue of Liberty. Itzhak Perlman.
Overlooking the Hudson at
the end of Vesey Street, the
Irish Hunger Memorial is a e Skyscraper
monument dedicated to the Museum
Irish who starved to death 39 Battery Pl. Map 1 A3. Tel (212) 968-
during the Great Famine 1961. q Bowling Green, Rector St.
of 1845–52. The centerpiece, Open noon–6pm Wed–Sun. & =
an abandoned stone cottage ∑ skyscraper.org
from Ireland, is set on a raised,
grassy embankment. Adjacent to the Ritz-Carlton
hotel, this museum celebrates
New York’s architectural heritage
w Museum of and examines the historical The charming fountain at Bowling Green,
Jewish Heritage forces and individuals that Battery Park
shaped the city’s skyline. There
36 Battery Pl. Map 1 B4. Tel (646) 437- is a permanent exhibition on t Bowling Green
4200. q Bowling Green, South Ferry. the World Trade Center and
@ M5, M15, M20. Open 10am– a digital reconstruction of Map 1 C4. q Bowling Green.
5:45pm Sun–Thu (to 8pm Wed),
10am–5pm Fri (to 3pm Nov–Mar) and how Manhattan has changed This triangular plot north
eve of Jewish hols. Closed Sat, Jewish over time, as well as temporary of Battery Park was the city’s
holidays, Thanksgiving. & 7 9 = exhi bitions that analyze the earliest park, used first as
- Lectures. ∑ mjhnyc.org various definitions of tall a cattle market and later as a
buildings: as objects of design, bowling ground. A statue of
This museum stands as a products of techno logy, sites King George III stood here until
memorial to the victims of the of construction, real-estate the signing of the Declaration
Holocaust. The core exhibition, investments, and places of of Independence, when, as
which covers three floors, is work and residence. a symbol of British rule, the

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