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Fearless Girl Statue

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Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.  

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The girl is a four-foot bronze, staring down the iconic Wall Street 'Charging Bull'. Volkan Furuncu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The Fearless Girl statue stands before holiday lights, Dec. 25, 2021. philliprlee (Atlas Obscura User)
Fearless Girl stares down the NYSE RyanAri (Atlas Obscura User)
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Sign near the statue. Craig Baker (Atlas Obscura User)
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For 28 years, a bronze bull was the star of Wall Street, the statue everyone came to see and snap photos with. But in March 2017, the neighborhood got a new heroine, a small but fierce girl defiantly staring down the bull. An overnight sensation, she’s here to stay at least until 2018.

The Fearless Girl, a bronze statue created by Kristen Visbal, was installed for International Women’s Day, standing right opposite the iconic Charging Bull statue in the Bowling Green park in downtown Manhattan. At just 4 feet and 250 pounds, she’s no competition in terms of size, but her fierce hands-on-hips stance and upturned face show that she’s more than a match for him.

Commissioned by a financial services firm to advocate gender diversity on corporate boards, the statue in the city’s Financial District became a runaway hit, with thousands flocking to the site to get a photo with the heroine of the hour, and mimicking her pose. An online petition to make the statue a permanent fixture was started and received over 28,000 signatures by the following week. Her superstar status led to city authorities announcing that she would stay at the site until 2018. 

Update November 2018: The statue has been removed, and will be relocated near the New York Stock Exchange. Now, only her footprints remain in the original location.

Update as of February 2021: The statue can now be found in front of the New York Stock Exchange.

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It is generally extremely crowded with tourists. Avoid going on weekends.

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