A Last Ride in New York's Disappearing Horse Elevators

Here I go. I need to release the brake and that allows the stop to go through. So this whole unit, I believe, has been here since when they first built the building.There were two prior owners to this building going residential. It was originally a stable. All the carriages were on the ground floor and all the horses came up because real estate, even over 100 years ago, was so expensive.It was cheaper to go up, as opposed to go wider. Starting at the end of the Civil War up until 1900, this area was really ...