HorseWatch NYC

Central Park looked a little like a Six Flags amusement park on Sunday. Watch these accidents waiting to happen : the careless children riding bikes in front of horses, the drivers turned around...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/10/very-dangerous-mix.html

July 27, 2011 at the hack line near the Plaza Hotel in New York City. If tourists knew the dangers of this scenario to horses and people, taking a ride would not be an option.

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/08/gridlock.html

Six blocks from the place where the carriage horse Spotty died in a horrific spooking accident in 2006 , the white horse (in front of the building) is seen yesterday sandwiched in between parked...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/horses-traffic-danger-ahead.html

Central Park is one of the most beautiful places in New York City. Its pastoral settings pay tribute to Frederick Law Olmsted, who together with Calvert Vaux, designed the park in a simpler era....

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/bucolic-central-park-not-exactly.html

It seems that good sense goes out the window at weddings. From royalty to commoners, and all the bridezillas in between, people can't resist putting horses into loud and chaotic situations that ...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/04/horses-spook-royal-wedding-edition.html

The slave drivers are gearing up for another steamy summer. This is Tenth Avenue, around 44th Street. The general vicinity of one of the most gruesome carriage horse spooking accidents in recent...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/04/andtheyre-off.html

Demolition is under way at the building that was Shamrock Stables. It was kept running for years with a $55,000 monthly subsidy from the city. This, at a time of painful cuts to budgets, agencie...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/04/shamrock-stables-not-long-for-w-45th.html

New York City welcomes best-selling Irish-American author Mary Higgins Clark as th e grand marshal for the St. Patrick's Day parade on Thursday. In a break with the event's tradition of having th...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2011/03/be-safe-paddy.html

Today brings news of a serious carriage horse spooking accident in Eureka, California, which is north of San Francisco. The horse bolted after being spooked by skateboarders, according to a repo...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/08/gruesome-yearso-far.html

On another note, the city of NYC continues its slaughter of Canada geese ; when people found out about Bloomberg's latest stupid assault, they were disgusted. He tried to make bad guys out of the...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/07/bloomberg-hates-animals-got-it.html

Another accident, media take notice Predictably, the rate of accidents involving horse-drawn carriages in New York City is increasing. The drivers are displaying more recklessness and arrogance ...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/05/stay-active.html

Be the horses' eyes and ears The mistreatment of New York City carriage horses is getting worse by the minute, now that the drivers and owners are being rewarded for fraudulent and reckless beha...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/05/im-back-things-are-worse-than-ever.html

From the "What Were They Thinking Department" This bad idea never have made it past the brainstorming session: Nivea plastered its ho-hum branding all over the New York City carriage horses on F...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/02/hugs-kisses-or-near-misses.html

Say "no" to a carriage ride Not a drop of water for the horses on January 27, when this picture was taken at Central Park. This is in blatant violation of the law. The Department of Health is co...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/02/dont-make-date-with-cruelty.html

Take a look. You don't have to own horses or be a veterinarian to see that this is a problem, which is the gist of a comment on a YouTube video that shows New York City carriage horses. One com...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/none-so-blind.html

It seems like "deju vu" seeing the video from a recent peaceful demonstration in Philadelphia. The miserable icy weather, the horses standing in the chill for hours, the driver enjoying a smoke...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/philadelphia-set-them-free.html

A first look at Sunday's protest in New York City against the Calico roundup of America's wild horses and burros...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/rising-tide-of-protests-against-blm.html

NYC protest Sunday, Jan. 17! The courageous and self-possessed stallion who has been dubbed "Freedom" is now known around the world. He fought for and won the freedom that is his by law but under...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-kind-of-help-horses-dont-need_15.html

Surely West Side Livery, one of five carriage horse stables in Manhattan, is one of the worst homes that a horse could have. Most New York City residents go about their daily business not thinki...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/12/where-carriage-horses-live.html

Animal suffering is not a tourist attraction There are a number of similarities between the horse-drawn carriage industries in Charleston and New York City. Namely, both are politically entrench...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-life-for-horse.html

Take Action to stop the Bureau of Land Management unwise plan to remove as many as 70 horses from Cloud's herd in the Pryor Mountains. This ill-advised plan, which is scheduled to begin around Se...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/managing-to-extinction.html

Too important to miss! Tony Avella is the people's choice! Here is the Working Families Party Mayoral Forum webcast in its entirety. Michael R. Bloomberg is up first. Your patience will be rewar...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/07/working-families-party-mayoral-forum_09.html

The New York City carriage industry doesn't want tourists to know the truth about the way the horses live and die. One driver in particular is very vocal in shouting down activists, who sometime...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-happened-in-new-york-city.html

Activist alert: If you do anything to help New York City's carriage horses, be forewarned: You will likely be harassed by the carriage industry. YouTube member "HorsesinNYC " shows individuals be...

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/are-you-ready-for-your-close-up_22.html

One activist's account I am humbled after reading one woman's account of the Mother's Day demonstration outside of Central Park. This blogger, "The Feminist Texican," really tells it like it is....

http://horsewatchnyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/from-wish-i-wrote-it-department.html