New York, 1920. Exchange Court Building at 52 Broadway and Exchange Place. View full size. Photograph by Irving Underhill. Completed in 1898, the structure was rebuilt with additional floors and a modern facade in 1980-82.
Submitted by Rocketeer on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 8:30am.
I think in most jurisdictions horse traffic just faded out. I was born in 1955 and guys less than ten years older than me remember when my hometown outside New York City still had a blacksmith.
I remember in the mid 60s a junk man in a horse drawn carriage used to drive through our neighborhood on a regular basis.
This photo is one of many on Shorpy showing autos and horses side-by-side on a city street. At the time, there wasn't anything unusual at all for horse-drawn vehicles to travel among skyscrapers; there were provisions for their passage, including water troughs and the sanitation department.
Was a law eventually passed that forbade horses to be used for business? Or did they eventually just fade out on their own?
Submitted by Jeff Lichtman on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 1:58pm.
Perhaps the flag was at half staff to honor Levi P. Morton, who died at the age of 96 on May 16, 1920. Morton had been governor of New York, a congressman, vice president under Benjamin Harrison and minister to France from 1881 to 1885.
