After years of debate, the City Council is expected to approve legislation this week that would phase out the horse carriage industry in the city.<\/p>\n
The legislation has the support of Mayor Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin.<\/p>\n
Carriage drivers and the union representing them have been speaking out against a ban, but the Central Park Conservancy says banning the horses is the right move for public safety.<\/p>\n
David Saltonstall, vice president for government relations, policy & community affairs at the conservancy, joined Rocco Vertuccio for a conversation on the upcoming vote, as well as other recent safety issues in Central Park.<\/p>\n
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years of debate, the City Council is expected to approve legislation this week that would phase out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,128,9,24,12,63,380,129,131,130,27,200,4181],"class_list":["post-376781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod","tag-weekend-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376781","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=376781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}