The Cow Tunnels of New York City

It isn’t dead horse blogging (and don’t worry yourselves, I still have a good number of dead horses to show you), but this essay on the forgotten history of cows in New York City is great. There may be some cow tunnels underneath the city built to move cows around without clogging city streets, a real problem in 19th and early 20th century New York, when there were a good number of slaughterhouses in Manhattan. It’s unclear whether they do actually exist, but this is a fun story, not only because of the cows but because of the research process.