{"id":372248,"date":"2026-10-13T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:56:10","slug":"nyc-council-set-to-ban-central-parks-carriage-horse-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372248\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council set to ban Central Park’s carriage horse industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York City Council is set to approve a ban on Central Park carriage horses next week.<\/p>\n

Council Speaker Julie Menin on Tuesday announced the chamber would hold a vote on legislation to ban the industry on Oct. 22. For years, animal rights advocates have called for the end to the park\u2019s once iconic carriage horses. Their push gained momentum in June after a carriage horse collapsed and died. Weeks later, teen tourist Romanch Mahajan died after he fell from a runaway carriage horse in the park.<\/p>\n

After Mahajan\u2019s death, councilmembers renamed a bill to ban the carriage horses after him, and held a daylong hearing on the legislation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tragic and preventable death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan made clear that the status quo is no longer acceptable,\u201d Menin wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n

The industry has been fiercely defended by the powerful Transport Workers Union, which represents the carriage horse drivers.<\/p>\n

The legislation already has the support of more than half the Council\u2019s 51 members, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said that he supports banning the industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Menin said the legislation also aims to help carriage drivers who would be put out of work by the ban.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe legislation will require the administration to develop a plan to connect hardworking New Yorkers employed in this industry with new economic opportunities,\u201d Menin said in her statement. \u201cWe can honor our city’s traditions while recognizing when it’s time to move forward in the interest of public safety, protecting workers, and strengthening our city’s economic vitality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Council is set to approve a ban on Central Park carriage horses next week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-372248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372248","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=372248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}