Wooooah is me

And to think, Fay and I were going to go riding next Thursday for the perfect start to my 31st year on earth.
Damn all the developers!

From Gawker:
(Guess who is their correspondent?!)

Weep For The Upper West Side Girls Without Horses
The news that the Upper West Side's Claremont Riding Academy, a stable and horseback riding school at 89th and Amsterdam, is closing imminently after being sold to a developer—perhaps as soon as this Friday—is a blow not only for uptown riding princesses (just think how much more painful their virginity-losing will be!) but anyone else who enjoyed taking one of the horses out for a little Central Park wandering. As a correspondent reports:

This is where all little uptown girls learn how to ride and where their mothers' hair turns grey to the naked eye as their little princesses get bucked off. They also rent horses by the hour to ride in Central Park. Who is going to use the Bridle paths in Central Park now? Will Bloomberg's daughter rent her horses out for canters through the park?
Possibly! Take that, congestion pricing!—Doree

From the New York Post:
By JUAN GONZALEZ and CATHY BURKE
April 23, 2007 -- The neighs have it.

Claremont Riding Academy on the Upper West Side, a national historical site and the oldest continuously operated stable in the country, is closing down for lack of business, employees said last night.

Owner Paul Novograd called together staffers yesterday to break the news - though rumors have rumbled for several years.

"Paul said basically this is our last week of lessons," said barn manager Danielle Misa. "Sunday is our official last day. The horses have to be out of the barn by May 3."

The stable was built in 1892; the horses are used for teaching as well as for hire on the 6 miles of bridle paths in Central Park.

The site on West 89th Street has long been coveted by developers.


I guess now I am off to Pelham Bay Park to ride. I wonder if the horses know how to boogie in the Bronx?

Sadly siging off-
Cantor no more Cator