For more than 150 years, horse-drawn carriages have been a fixture in Manhattan’s Central Park. Now, a growing online movement is trying to push them out.

“Pure joy, the feeling I have when I ruin the sale of a horse carriage guy,” Kristina Papilion, who posts under the handle @spare_time_gurl, said in a video posted last month. “The horse guys hate to see me coming,” she added in another.

Despite a horse collapsing and dying last week blocks from Central Park – & it being NINETY DEGREES in NYC TODAY – the Central Park horse carriages were still operating. Speak up and help save the horses!!!❣️#centralpark #nyc #newyork #fyp #horse #horses

Papilion never intended to become a “horsefluencer,” as she calls her now-viral series. A New York City local who visits the park almost daily, she f

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