{"id":373586,"date":"2026-10-15T04:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373586\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T04:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T04:14:23","slug":"the-many-losers-in-nycs-horse-carriage-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373586\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Losers in NYC&#8217;s Horse Carriage Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/mamdani-menin-horse-drawn-carriages-nyc-01116617?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;d struck a deal<\/a> to finally outlaw New York&#8217;s 334-year-old horse carriage industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law would make it illegal to drive a horse-drawn carriage in the city beginning in June of 2028.<\/p>\n<p>John Samuelsen, the head of the Transport Workers Union, which has been representing the carriage industry since 2020, claimed he was blindsided by the news. That&#8217;s despite the fact that calls to ban the industry reached a fever pitch after the June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/17\/nyregion\/horse-carriage-central-park-injury.html?ref=hellgatenyc.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death of tourist Romanch Mahajan<\/a>, 18, who fell from a carriage after the horse pulling him bolted in Central Park. The legislation to ban carriage horses is now called &#8220;Romanch&#8217;s Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the whole thing is reprehensible,&#8221; Samuelsen told Hell Gate. &#8220;The speaker of the New York City Council, Julie Menin, used an absolutely tragic moment to contrive a public safety crisis with the horses, which is laughable and nonexistent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\"  \/>From left to right: Councilmembers Chris Marte, Harvey Epstein, Julie Menin, Carl Wilson, and Shaun Abreu attended a rally for Romanch\u2019s Law. (Gerardo Romo \/ NYC Council Media Unit)<\/p>\n<p>          Give us your email to read the full story<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-cta__description mb\">\n          Sign up now for our free newsletters.\n    <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/hellgatenyc.com\/newsletter\/\" class=\"passata color-hg__text background-hg__background p-match radius-match border text-2125 text-decoration-none mb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Sign up<br \/>\n      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced they&#8217;d struck a deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-373586","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\/373586","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=373586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}