New York City Moves To Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages In Central Park, Supporters Celebrate | Watch

We are standing outside City Hall because the hour of justice has finally arrived. In just moments from now, inside that chamber, a historic vote will be cast. Today, October 22nd, New York will choose compassion over tragedy. This isn't just a piece of legislation. This is a sacred vow written in the tears of a family whose world was shattered in a million pieces. No family should ever have to endure the suffocating, silent grief of losing a vibrant, beautiful child for months our family hasn't been allowed to just grieve we've had to fight we've had to channel our devastating sorrow into a war for change but today once this law is passed the battle can finally stop and i think if these people truly do love their horses i've been around horses i volunteer at sanctuaries that take care of horses they do best when they're in a field where they're able to be with their friends and run around and do everything a horse would love to do naturally where they they can't get that here when they're living in a concrete building in a concrete city it's just it's not a place for a horse to live i am not taking my dog in the middle of the streets you know in the middle of the street with trucks and and cars and buses i'm not i wouldn't i wouldn't uh put my my best friend in risk and that's what i i i want these people to understand that it is not about the love they have for the animals yes and uh they know their animals and but but we're putting them in risk big big risk i am disgusted that i voted for mamdani absolutely disgusted one of the greatest regrets of my life because he promised he was gonna stick up for working people for the little guy for all my friends and co-workers immigrants many of them who i've known for over a decade now and they've become you know a big part of my life as have my three kids we're ten seven and four years old who depend on me to make a living every day they're confiscating our property they're uh stealing a multi-million dollar business from the horses and probably the petty cab soon enough you know they're already starting to go after them. They're gonna get rid of all of us and just replace us business owners with minimum wage employees that they can fully control. I don't feel like that's Mamdani's New York. That's not what I was promised when I voted for Zoran Mamdani to be the mayor of New York City. One death in 150 years is the greatest safety record in the history of transportation industries. So my horses are my family. She's my partner, yes. She's my best friend. She's the one I spend almost all of my time with. She's the one I cry to. She's the one I laugh with. It really does hurt me when I hear people tell me that. I abuse my family or I don't treat them right because she has a job. A working horse is a safe horse. A horse with a job is a safe horse because then they're carrying everything. If you take away that livelihood, then their futures are very uncertain. Because you're not just taking away a job, you're taking away the cost of maintaining that animal for the rest of their lives. 90, close to 200 horses in this business. And each horse probably works many thousand hours over the course of the year, at coin hours, and you go many, many years without any real problem. Nothing really noteworthy happens or press-worthy. Put under is done by the real estate industry. You can see a precise, exquisite display of what's going on if you go to 37th Street, I'm sorry, 38th Street at 10th Avenue, walk west towards the Javits Center. First thing you're gonna come upon is the old Manhattan Hotel, 14, 15 stories, slated for demolition. Directly across the street is a business that was probably built in the 1890s, originally as livery service. Been doing automotive repair probably for the last 100 years, since the 1920s, slated for demolition. Walk a little farther up the street, there's another automotive repair service slated for demolition. All these buildings are coming down. Then you got our care, the stables, built in the 1890s, because the river used to come right there. But then you look to the left and there's Hudson Yards. Those representatives, I'll guarantee, getting a lot of real estate developer money and probably specifically from hudson yards it's pretty habituated he stopped here and he gets a carrot that is we are standing outside city hall because the hour of justice has finally arrived in just moments from now inside that chamber a historic war will be cast today october 22nd new york will choose compassion over tragedy this isn't just a piece of legislation this is a sacred wall written in the tears of a family whose world was shattered in a million pieces, no family should have ever have to endure the suffocating silent grief of losing a vibrant, beautiful child. For months, our family hasn't been allowed to just grieve. We've had to fight. We've had to channel our devastating sorrow into a war for change. But today, once this law is passed, the battle can finally stop. And I think if these people truly do love their horses, I've been around horses, I volunteer at sanctuaries, that take care of horses they do best when they're in a field where they're able to be with their friends and run around and do everything a horse would love to do naturally where they they can't get that here when they're living in a concrete building in a concrete city it's just it's not a place for a horse to live I am NOT taking my dog in the middle of the streets you know in the middle of the street with trucks and cars and buses I'm not I wouldn't I I wouldn't put my my best friend in risk and that's what I want these people to understand that it is not about the love they have for the animals yes and they know they're animals and but but we're putting them in risk big big risk if you like this video then like share and subscribe to Mirror Now