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December 24, 2014 An Unauthorized Christmas Gift to New York, First Rejected Then Embraced It was 25 years ago that an 18-foot-long, 3.5-ton bronze sculpture of a raging bull (as in bull market) was surreptitiously unloaded from a flatbed truck by guerrilla artist Arturo Di Modica and placed in the middle of Broad Street near the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift to New York City. The bull, intended to symbolize the city's drive and optimism, was carted off by the authorities but soon ended up a few blocks away, where it remains to this day and is Wall Street's most famous mascot, says the Wall Street Journal. SOURCE: The ‘Charging Bull’ statue – a Wall Street Christmas tale

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