Cross-posted from the New York Times
The newest residences at Mercedes House, a ziggurat of luxury rentals on Manhattan’s Far West Side, provide tenants with creature comforts found nowhere else in the city.
Special flooring soothes legs weary from a long day’s work. Ten-foot-high doors offer easy passage between spacious rooms. A high-tech ventilation system eliminates even the worst odors.
Most crucially, there’s a state-of-the-art hayloft.
“It’s definitely high-end accommodations,” said Deputy Inspector Barry Gelbman, commander of the New York Police Department’s mounted unit. “They’re some of the nicest stables I’ve ever seen.”
This summer, Inspector Gelbman will move the unit’s headquarters and a dozen of its horses and 20 officers into their new home on the ground floor of Mercedes House, which since 2011 has been home to about 1,000 humans. After a decade, the mounted unit is leaving behind its stables at Pier 76, now a part of Hudson River Park.
While there are a handful of stable-centric subdivisions in places like Colorado, Montana and Florida, Mercedes House appears to be the only corral in the United States located inside an apartment building.
Even in crowded Manhattan, it is an unusual arrangement.
Tuesday's Horse 
The comment “I hope they don’t smell” sounds just like someone that was raised in a city living in a condo, house or apartment that has never seen a horse up close or petted one.
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Sweet! It seems like most police horses tend to be clean and healthy. It’s a shame that the carriage horses do not get even half the luxury. Yet again, if I’m not mistaken, the NYPD gets money from the government so they are able to invest in way superior stabling.
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Reblogged this on cindymendoza47 and commented:
wish our wild horses had shelter like this .
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