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- Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Council Speaker Julie Menin agreed to ban horse-drawn carriages.
- The City Council will vote next week on Mamdani’s bill to ban carriages citywide by June 2028.
- An 18-year-old Indian tourist, Romanch Mahajan, died after a carriage horse spooked and threw him in June 2026.
- A city-hired veterinarian reported dozens of health abnormalities among horses in Central Park stables.