A Place to Feed the Inner Gallop

August 02, 2005

Fifty horses of different colors reside peaceably at the Claremont Riding Academy, an odoriferous domicile and designated landmark built in 1892. For them, ignorance is bliss. Owing to Claremont's desirable West 89th Street location a mere trot from Central Park, it is likely to be worth more without them. If market value trumps tradition, tradition is put out to pasture. Usually.

When Claremont made a brief cameo on the real estate market earlier this summer at an asking price of more than $10 million, no equine eyes blinked but human eyes grew teary. Claremont is to urban riders what Lourdes is to the infirm: a healing place. An addiction, even: hard to imagine navigating city life without it.

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