Daily News | Plan to create horse stables in Fairmount Park could provide base for city’s iconic urban cowboys
Philadelphia City Council has taken the first step toward putting horse stables in East Fairmount Park that could serve as a much-needed base for at least some of the city’s iconic urban riders, the focus of the fictionalized 2021 Netflix filmThough formal plans are still months away, Council introduced an ordinance Thursday that would allow animal husbandry on a several-acre wedge of land off Reservoir Drive between Sedgley Woods and Kelly Drive that officials are eying for the “Stables at the...
The ordinance was introduced by Council President Darrell L. Clarke. It needs a public hearing before being adopted and before any structures can be built for the stables. Joe Grace, a spokesman for Clarke, said there is no timetable for the hearing, and he expects “we’re still a good three to six months away before work can be completed and the horses can be moved” from their current temporary stables on Fletcher Street.in 2004, to find a suitable location. The club’s mission is to provide an alternative outdoor activity for youth while “teaching life skills, instilling discipline and promoting academic excellence.
However, the groups are separate, and the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club has expressed concern in the past thatviewers might think the film was based on the club and might hurt its own fund-raising efforts. The film is a fictionalized look at the urban cowboys, sometimes referred to as the city’s Black cowboys.
Regardless, the stables would signify a commitment by the city to preserve a unique slice of Philly history that stretches back a hundred years of urban cowboys who began stabling horses and riding city streets after migrating from the South. Many of the migrants continued to use horse-drawn wagons for work or were already accomplished cowboys or riders.
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