Article: New York City before cars.(vehicles, photographs, prints and posters, PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, New York)

Legal parking places in New York City were not always as scarce as they are today, for until the middle of the nineteenth century privately owned horse-drawn carriages were the province of only the wealthiest New Yorkers. An exhibition that looks back to that era is on view until September 10 at the PaineWebber Art Gallery in New York City. It is entitled The Carriage Era in New York and comprises eight horse-drawn vehicles, photographs, prints, posters, coaching accouterments, and clothing loaned by the Museums at Stony Brook, in Stony Brook, New York, which has one of the most important collections of horse-drawn vehicles in the country.

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