Horse Car's Last Days Frame Color:Natural were the first American astronauts

were the first American astronauts to go to space in nearly 6 years

he loaded the sidecars with 450 pounds of sand and ran the ride through its usual gravity-defying cycle of soaring

Senator Barry Goldwater once said

Staff photographer Nicole Bengiveno took this photo from a crosstown bus traveling along 14th Street on Oct

Horse Car's Last Days Frame Color:Natural were the first American astronautsIn the days before the last of New York's horse drawn trolleys disappeared from the streets, a photographer snapped one on Broadway, near 17th Street, alongside the newfangled thing that had made it obsolete, a "modern electric car." Horse cars like this one, considered an "antiquated vehicle" in 1917, traveled on the Bleecker St. & Fulton Ferry Line for quite a while before the operators chose to abandon the franchise. Several notables rode it one