{"id":38659,"date":"2020-08-01T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-horses-shaped-nyc-and-now-thrive-inside-it-in-surprising-ways\/"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T13:10:00","slug":"how-horses-shaped-nyc-and-now-thrive-inside-it-in-surprising-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-horses-shaped-nyc-and-now-thrive-inside-it-in-surprising-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"#How horses shaped NYC \u2014 and now thrive inside it in surprising ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How horses shaped NYC \u2014 and now thrive inside it in surprising ways<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n At the 2019 production of \u201cAida\u201d at the Metropolitan Opera, one of the equine stars relieved himself backstage every night as soon as he heard Verdi\u2019s opening note. The horse\u2019s handler, always ready with a bucket to catch the flood, never missed her cue.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s excited for his grand entrance,\u201d she told the author of a new book. \u201cWouldn\u2019t you be?\u201d<\/p>\n

It may seem as though big animals have no place amidst the crowds and bustle of the Big App<\/a>le, but \u201cHorse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal\u201d (Simon & Schuster), out Tuesday, looks at the surprising ways horses have existed \u2014 and continue to exist \u2014 in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis groaning, clanking, thoroughly modern metropolis was built by and for horses,\u201d writes author Sarah Maslin Nir, who grew up in Manhattan and started riding at age 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cNineteenth-century New York, the raw land on which Victorian-era urban architects laid the rectilinear grid plan, was a horse haven.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New York City\u2019s streets were built to accommodate \u201ctwo horses abreast.\u201d<\/span>Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the end of the 19th century, some 62,000 horses reportedly lived in the five boroughs, and some estimate that as many as 200,000 worked in the city. Today, a few hundred equines call the Big Apple home. But \u201cthe city still echoes with horses,\u201d Maslin Nir writes \u2014 and not just the animals controversially pulling carriages around Central Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cHidden on street corners in this modern city are marble fountains with troughs for thirsty horses tucked at their base. An obelisk in Harlem is surrounded by a tureen from which horses once sipped,\u201d she writes. \u201cWhen the Brooklyn Bridge was opened in 1883, the toll was a nickel a horse for the crossing \u2026 The width of my city\u2019s taxi-choked streets corresponds to the breadth of two horses abreast; after all, horses were yellow cabs when my city was new.\u201d<\/p>\n

For decades, the annual Viennese Opera Ball at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Midtown featured live horses who were transported to the third floor in a freight elevator that let them out onto a prep kitchen, where the animals had to weave through racks of pots and pans to get to their \u201cdressing room.\u201d There, they were fitted with rubber booties, so as to not scuff the floors in the ballroom. Then it was showtime. At a ball Maslin Nir attended in 2011, one pair pulled a carriage with a ballerina around the room, beneath chandeliers, as debutantes and guests nibbled on Beef Wellington.<\/p>\n

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When the Claremont Riding Academy closed in 2007, it was the last public riding stable in Manhattan.<\/span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Such elaborate equine spectacles demonstrate New Yorkers\u2019 ingenuity, says Maslin Nir. \u201cI don\u2019t think they understand the word no,\u201d she writes. \u201c[Even] when it comes to horses.\u201d (The last ball held with horses at the Waldorf Astoria was in 2017.)<\/p>\n

But the majestic creatures aren\u2019t just found at elaborate events. For decades, the Claremont Riding Academy on West 89th Street housed dozens of horses on four stories, with the animals ambling down a series<\/a> of ramps to get to the outside world where city kids could take them on trots around nearby Central Park. When it closed in 2007, it was the last public riding stable in Manhattan to shutter.<\/p>\n

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On Randall\u2019s Island Park, meanwhile, the NYC Riding Academy continues to operate. On a bike ride years ago, Maslin Nir was shocked when she first came upon the quiet stable on the outskirts of Harlem.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a backdrop of skyscrapers,\u201d she writes, \u201cthe horses were in a setting that seemed impossible.\u201d She ended up befriending George and Ann Blair, the black couple who own the facility and work to educate people about the place of African-American cowboys in history \u2014 in the late 1800s, one in four cowboys on the frontier was black. While the equestrian world is often thought of as elitist, Maslin Nir is quick to note that it\u2019s actually quite diverse, and horses themselves are democratic creatures.<\/p>\n

In fact, she argues, we can all benefit from being in close proximity to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether they\u2019re teaching riding lessons to disabled children or stampeding across the stage at the Metropolitan Opera, horses are objects of wonder, in a way that a dog or cat isn\u2019t,\u201d she says. \u201cHorses stir the soul.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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