{"id":379638,"date":"2026-10-22T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379638\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:42:11","slug":"council-speaker-on-push-to-end-nyc-horse-carriage-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379638\/","title":{"rendered":"Council speaker on push to end NYC horse carriage rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City\u2019s long-running debate over horse-drawn carriages is reaching a turning point, with the City Council expected to advance legislation Thursday that would end the industry by June 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, known as Romanch\u2019s Law, is named for 18-year-old Indian tourist Romanch Mahajan, who died in June after jumping from a runaway carriage during a ride.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal has the backing of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Central Park Conservancy, but carriage drivers have opposed efforts to phase out the industry.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Speaker Julie Menin joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d ahead of the vote to discuss the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s long-running debate over horse-drawn carriages is reaching a turning point, with the City Council expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,2274,2275,9,24,12,56,63,65,64,87,1103,200],"class_list":["post-379638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-ny1","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379638","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=379638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}