What do 15,000 dead horses a year in 1880s New York City have to do with the current bike explosion in NYC? Hint, what did poet Baudelaire do with death?
When Wheels Pile Up - Plant a Bike - Save the City - NYTimes.com: “In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets,” the historians Joel Tarr and Clay McShane wrote in an essay called “The Centrality of the Horse to the Nineteenth-Century American City.” Horse carcasses, they added, “were sometimes dumped with garbage into the bays or the rivers, often floating there or washing up on the beaches.”
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