Sorry: The deal between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin to shut down the Central Park carriage trade is as much of a compromise as the Hitler-Stalin Pact, with the horses and their drivers stuck playing Poland.<\/p>\n
The accord to kill these jobs<\/a> by June 2028 bears all the hallmarks of elite virtue-signaling, but then the mayor and speaker didn\u2019t win their high offices thanks to working-class voters.<\/p>\n So they presume to displace hundreds of workers \u2014 immigrants and the children of immigrants \u2014 depriving them of honest incomes with no genuine relief plan in place, just a vague offer of job-counseling services.<\/p>\n The owners of 68 carriage medallions are seeing their livelihoods blatantly confiscated \u2014 with not a dime set aside to compensate them for their stolen investments.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Talk about putting the carriage before the horse: Expect a serious lawsuit here.<\/p>\n Also, get real: Wiping out the industry effectively sends 160 horses off to the slaughterhouse, despite the elite vision of pastoral animal sanctuaries (again with no hint of who\u2019d pay for them).<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n They pretend it\u2019s about \u201ca growing public safety liability,\u201d as a Menin statement asserted, but the carriages are linked to a single death<\/a> in well over a century of operations (and even that tragedy may prove the fault of Central Park Conservancy negligence<\/a>), while e-bike collisions have killed 133 New Yorkers just since 2019.<\/p>\n Why can\u2019t Mamdani and Menin agree to do something about that menace?<\/p>\n This is purely a pander to privileged prejudice, and it stinks far worse than the horses\u2019 manure after a weeklong heatwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sorry: The deal between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin to shut down the Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4709,301,1159,304,8395,19077,9,24,55,54,56,299,82],"class_list":["post-373760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-central-park","tag-city-council","tag-e-bikes","tag-editorial","tag-horse-carriages","tag-julie-menin","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-opinion","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373760","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=373760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}