Fearless Girl Gets Her Own Corner of Wall Street

On December 10, 2018, the city and State Street Global Advisors unveiled the bronze Fearless Girl at a new pedestal on Broad Street, facing the New York Stock Exchange. Sculptor Kristen Visbal had installed the statue in March 2017 at Bowling Green, staring down Arturo Di Modica's Charging Bull, as a commission meant to pressure companies into adding women to their boards. Di Modica said the placement twisted the meaning of his own sculpture, and after months of dispute, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in April 2018 that Fearless Girl would move to her own spot facing the Exchange by year's end. She came down from Bowling Green in late November and went back up twelve days later, this time with nobody's bull to answer to but Wall Street itself.