New York City leaders including Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday vowed to work to put an end to the 150-year-old horse carriage industry in the wake of a teenager\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Romanch Mahajan, 18, was killed when a Central Park carriage horse bolted from its driver while he was on a family trip celebrating his high school graduation.<\/p>\n
Mahajan jumped out of the carriage after his mother fell out and he hit his head on the ground, his father, Deepak Mahajan, told The New York Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was screaming, \u2018Mom!\u2019\u201d the young man\u2019s father told the newspaper. Mahajan said he, his wife and younger son escaped with minor injuries, though their carriage clipped another horse-drawn vehicle and toppled over.<\/p>\n
City Council leaders said they would hold a hearing next month on Ryder\u2019s Law, the bill backed by the conservancy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe time to act is now,\u201d Council Speaker Julie Menin posted on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City leaders including Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday vowed to work to put an end to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101801,4709,31679,104530,21613,2101,104540,19077,9,24,55,54,56,104360,8823,8397,104541,82],"class_list":["post-271133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-alexander-kemp","tag-central-park","tag-central-park-conservancy","tag-deepak-mahajan","tag-horse-drawn-carriages","tag-india","tag-jaipur","tag-julie-menin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-romanch-mahajan","tag-ryders-law","tag-transport-workers-union","tag-transport-workers-union-local","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}