Plan Would Limit, But Not Eliminate, Carriage Horses in NY City

Even though Mayor Bill de Blasio promised “action” on his campaign promise to ban carriage horses in 2014, a ban on the beloved, controversial diversion never happened.

A new plan is being discussed to reduce the number of – but not eliminate – horse carriages on NY City.

“The preparation is outstanding but now we’ve added more capacity”, de Blasio said.

Activists who support a ban spent more than $1 million attacking de Blasio’s 2013 opponent, Christine Quinn.

Cuomo took umbrage that de Blasio invited Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino to join in his bipartisan group of area elected officials holding a press conference in Penn Station on Tuesday – citing his former challenger’s pro-life abortion stance and his statement that the USA shouldn’t accept Syrian refugees. “We will talk to that in the coming days”, he said.

The alert was sparked by concerns from authorities that members of ISIS who went to Syria and Iraq to train will now be returning to Europe and the U.S. Their reentries could be timed to coincide with the busiest travel season of the year and large gatherings related to Christmas or Thanksgiving. De Blasio said during a mayoral forum, “I would ban the horse carriages in Central Park within the first week on the job”.

Last Sunday, the NYPD held an active…

We were alienating people in the Muslim-American community that we should have had as friends and allies, he said of the NYPDs Demographics Unit.

De Blasio responded by saying the city was “doing a lot right now” and blaming the situation on “the economic reality we’re in”.