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Cheers to NYC Council Speaker Menin for backing bill that would ban carriage trade before public hearing tomorrow

Speaking from Central Park in New York City, City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced this afternoon that she would support Intro 943, formerly known as Ryder’s Law, to ban carriage horse rides after a tourist and horse died in separate accidents last month. She is the first City Council Speaker to publicly back a carriage […]

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