A day in the life of NYC carriage horses

This Animals' Angels video (of which some photos and images were provided by an anonymous source) shows New York City carriage horses working in heavy traffic (their stables are as far as 2 miles from Central Park). They share their food with pigeons, work alongside exhaust fumes and wailing sirens, dodge taxicabs, and then return to cramped stables in Hell's Kitchen. No daily turnout. Lameness and heat prostration are not uncommon under these working conditions.
Video cues of note:
0:25 horses walking down ramp
0:52 to 1:06 pigeons inside feed bucket, horse eats

1:14 to 2:07 traffic
1:31 Columbus Circle
1:41 horn honking

2:10, 2:17 horses tied to poles on CPS
2:37 delivery workers weave in and out traffic by carriages

2:58 Columbus Circle at dusk, taxis bearing down
3:01 cars come close to slow-moving carriage
3:02 taxi swerves to avoid carriage, horn

3:18 ramp going into West Side Livery
3:25 to 3:32 fire buckets
3:46 thin horse in tie stall
4:01 tail is clipped
4:08 dirty floor

4:12 turning to try and eat from pail on wall
4:15 tied to trough

Edited for length; from an Animals' Angels investigation.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• West Side Livery
• Animals' Angels
• New York City carriage horses
• horse-drawn carriage
• horse and buggy
• Central Park carriages
• tie stalls

[BanHDCarriages]

The Captain added, "We are not honoring the way these creatures should live and it shames this city so long as this treatment continues."

[BanHDCarriages]

CaptainMontereyJack1 wrote to say: "I used to live on 37th st between 9th and 10th ave. I'd pass a carriage horse stable walking west to the promenade with my dog. I routinely saw horses beaten, extremely thin. Seeing such maltreatment (and being threatened when I yelled at a handler to stop beating a horse) coupled with a neurosis my dog developed by seeing the horses (sensing how upset they made me), I moved. "

[SECRETAGENTCHARLIE]

This makes me so sad :(

[ElephantDrunk]

pretty fucked up to do that to an animal.