{"id":7410,"date":"2025-10-18T10:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7410\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:08:05","slug":"editors-note-horse-carriage-ban-opponents-take-a-wait-and-see-approach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/7410\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor\u2019s note: Horse carriage ban opponents take a wait-and-see approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-a20abb97-7fff-2bc8-2e71-c1b33eb6b24d\">Animal rights organization NYCLASS recently ran ads in two Manhattan weekly newspapers that were critical of John Samuelsen, international president of the Transport Workers Union, which represents the horse carriage industry, and New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams over the stalled passage of Ryder\u2019s Law. The legislation remains in the Health Committee, and it\u2019s unclear when a vote will happen. A council spokesperson told City &amp; State via email that the bill \u201ccontinues to go through the legislative process, which is deliberative and allows for thorough input from all stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuelsen has lobbied against the passage of Ryder\u2019s Law, named after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ryder-carriage-horse-died-new-york-city-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a horse that died<\/a> in 2022 after collapsing while pulling a carriage. He insists drivers aren\u2019t cruel to the animals, as alleged by advocates, and that the ban, introduced by Council Member Bob Holden, was proposed for political reasons, not humane ones. Mayor Eric Adams, in support of the ban, offered to buy back medallions from owners and transition drivers into city jobs. Their yearly earnings, now about $39,000, could increase to almost $50,000 with an additional $22,000 in benefits (which they don\u2019t currently have), according to a proposal obtained by NYCLASS. First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro added that the use of electric carriages was encouraged and a stable for the remaining horses would be built in Central Park. \u201cI offered all those things to John Samuelsen. You want to know what he offered me? Zero. Nada,\u201d Mastro told City &amp; State. \u201cWe\u2019re minding our own business,\u201d Samuelsen said, when asked about the offers. That leaves the industry\u2019s fate with the council. \u201cThe council hasn\u2019t moved on this because there\u2019s not even a close majority support,\u201d Samuelsen said, digging in to back the drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animal rights organization NYCLASS recently ran ads in two Manhattan weekly newspapers that were critical of John Samuelsen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6492,9,24,11,10,299],"class_list":{"0":"post-7410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-editors-note","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410","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=7410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}