Stables
There are three NYC carriage stables, originally built as stables, but now modernized where the horses reside. They're located in the same neigh-borhood as the NYC Police Department's Mounted Unit's horse's stable in Hells Kitchen. While the police horses walk down to Times Square, the carriage horses walk up to Central Park on a simple 20-35 minute commute.
The carriage stables are flood-resistant, housing the horses on second or third floors, easily accessed by rubber-lined ramps or freight elevators. They are lined with a fire sprinkler system, windows, summer fans, and ventilation system cupolas. They are monitored by 24/7 stablemen keeping a watchful eye over them while their stalls are mucked, hay is dished out, and buckets are filled with water. (The largest stable is equipped with automatic unlimited water dishes.) Additionally, every stall is equipped with a mineral salt block.
The horses stalls are large enough for them to turn around and lay down comfortably. They're lined with straw or woodchip bedding over rubber mats. Each stall is separated by wood walls with head height visibility to safely interact with the horses in the neighboring stalls. Every stall door has the horse's license and latest health exam posted outside it.
Increasingly surrounded by sky scrapers and residential high rises in Hudson Yards, the location of the stables has been long sought after real estate developers that have funded slanderous attacks on the industry in an attempt to turn public perception against it.
Over the years some of these real estate developers have teamed up with animal rights extremists that don't understand the beautiful partnership carriage drivers share with their horses and they have sought to end the human-animal bond by spreading false propaganda and exaggerations about the carriage industry.
To date, with the help of unions, the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers, tourists, and carriage drivers love of their horses have overpowered the small, but vocal minority against their industry defeating numerous carriage ban bill proposals introduced to the city council.