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\nThe bull won.
The four-foot-high \u201cFearless Girl\u201d statue, which was erected to face the iconic 11-foot-high \u201cCharging Bull\u201d statue in front of Wall Street to urge corporations to choose more women in the upper echelon of their companies, was removed Tuesday night, leaving only two lonely footprints where the statue had stood.
A plaque left where the statue stood read, \u201cFearless Girl is on the move to The New York Stock Exchange. Until she\u2019s there, stand for her.\u201d No date has been set for the statue\u2019s new installation.
Back in April, New York City officials said both statues would be moved to the stock exchange because pedestrians gathered around them created traffic problems. State Street Global Advisors chief Cyrus Taraporevala stated, \u201cSince Fearless Girl\u2019s placement, more than 150 companies have added a female director to their boards. Our hope is that by moving her closer to the NYSE she will encourage more companies to take action and, more broadly, that she will continue to inspire people from all walks of life on the issue of gender diversity.\u201d
Mayor Bill de Blasio said in April, \u201cWe are proud to be home to the Fearless Girl. She is a potent symbol of the need for change at the highest levels of corporate America \u2014 and she will become a durable part of our city\u2019s civic life.\u201d Eric Phillips, de Blasio\u2019s press secretary, tweeted, \u201cThe Bull will almost certainly be moved \u2014 and will very likely wind up reunited with Fearless Girl. But it\u2019s tricky and some things still need to be sorted out. Anyone who\u2019s ever relocated a 7,000-lb bronze bull knows what I mean.\u201d
The \u201cFearless Girl\u201d statue was erected in March 2017, by State Street Global Advisors, angering Arturo Di Modica, the creator of \u201cCharging Bull,\u201d who installed it in 1989. AP reported that Di Modica complained that his statue was meant to portray \u201cstrength, power and love,\u201d but the presence of \u201cFearless Girl\u201d limned his statue as something negative. He said in 2017, \u201cThe girl is right in front doing this, \u2018Now I\u2019m here, what are you going to do?\u2019\u201d Di Modica told MarketWatch: \u201cThat is not a symbol! That\u2019s an advertising trick. My bull is a symbol for America. My bull is a symbol of prosperity and for strength. Women, girls, that\u2019s great, but that\u2019s not what that (my sculpture) is.\u201d He added to the NY Daily News: \u201cI did it for all the American people. Not designed for men, women or gay.\u201d
Di Modica donated the \u201cCharging Bull\u201d statue to New York City in 1989 after he spent $350,000 of his own money to cast the 7,100 lb. bronze bull. He placed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange in December 1989 to comfort Americans after the stock market crash in 1987.
In May 2017,New York City sculptor Alex Gardega created a urinating dog sculpture, titled \u201c Pissing Pug,\u201d and placed it next to the left leg of the Fearless Girl statue. As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n