Bowling Green

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  • Address
    cnr Broadway & State St, Financial District, 10004
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  • Transport
    underground rail: 4, 5 to Bowling Green

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New York's oldest park is believed to have been the spot where Dutch settler Peter Minuit paid Native Americans US$24.00 to purchase Manhattan Island. The verdant triangle was leased by the people of New York from the English crown beginning in 1733, for the token amount of one peppercorn each. The huge bronze Charging Bull is an unintentional Wall Street icon.

An angry mob descended upon the site in 1776 and tore down a large statue of King George III; a fountain now stands in its place.