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The horse-drawn street car last carried New York City passengers in the summer of 1917. People relied on horses a lot less when motor buses, cable cars and subways started moving people faster and farther. What was it like to rely on horses for travel? Learn all about working horses and the history of the horsecar in New York and meet a working horse from Brooklyn’s Kensington Stables. For all ages
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