From Horses to Horsepower: The Bygone Worlds of Carriage Houses and Car Dealerships on the UWS

In this virtual tour with historian Lucie Levine, we’ll wind back the clock to when horses and horsepower reigned on the Upper West Side. We’ll discover Broadway’s Automobile Row and the Carriage Houses of West 58th Street. We’ll visit buildings constructed in the 1890s along Amsterdam Avenue’s “Stable Row”, which provided horses and carriages for hire to residents of the brownstones and apartment buildings that were springing up on the Upper West Side. Along the way, we’ll find out how businesses as diverse as carriage crafters and tire makers employed some of the city’s most renowned architects to create everything from garages to stables to riding academies in glorious styles ranging from Romanesque Revival to Art Deco.
We’re time-traveling from horses to horsepower – come along for the ride!

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