Horse Car's Last Days Framed or Unframed:Framed the first to own a

the first to own a car and the first to fly in an airplane

A century later

He covered national political conventions and championship boxing matches

then driven through Alaska and across the Bering Strait to Siberia for a home run toward Paris

It became best known for the island footprint it was built on called the Flatiron Block

Horse Car's Last Days Framed or Unframed:Framed the first to own aIn 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