Bowling Green (New York City)

Bowling Green is a small public park in the south of Manhattan in New York City. He is known mainly as the beginning of Broadway and the bronze statue of the Charging Bull He is the oldest park in New York and goes back to the beginnings of Fort Amsterdam. The park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Around the turn of the century especially large shipping companies were located here, as White Star Line and Cunard Line.

Description

The park is oval and each surrounded by two axes of Broadway. At the south end is the entrance portal of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, also known as the Museum of the Native Indians. The park itself is enclosed by a low fence, in the park there are tables and chairs, which are mainly used in the lunch time by the workers of the Financial District. A large fountain is located in the center, on the northern tip of the property is the Charging Bull The former road that ran along the southern end of the park, also named Bowling Green, but this was part of the modernization of the city by a metro system überpflastert around the entrance for the underground to create station.

Immediately to the surroundings of the park include the Standard Oil Building, Bowling Green Offices, One Broadway Building, and the Cunard Building.