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The Issue: The mayor and City Council’s move to phase out horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.
As a horsewoman who owns rescue horses, I read the news of New York City’s deal to ban horse-drawn carriages with real concern (“Horses vs. Socialism,” Nicole Gelinas, PostOpinion, Oct. 21).
The bill bars owners from selling their horses to slaughter or to another carriage business and talks about retiring them to sanctuaries. That sounds compassionate on paper. In practice, it ignores reality.
Reputable rescues and sanctuaries are few and far between, and the good ones are already full, underfunded and turning horses away.
Caring for a horse for the rest of its life costs thousands of dollars every year. Owners whose income has just been slashed will be left footing the bill, with fewer and fewer options.
If the city cares about these horses, it should not make them homeless in the name of saving them.
Wendy Wilde
Suffolk, Va.
City Council Speaker Julie Menin and Mayor Mamdani have caved to the mob. This group of hysterics seeks to ban the horse-drawn carriages, but where is their plan?
They have no understanding of horses or the carriage drivers who love them.
Melanie Coronetz
Manhattan
Don’t be part of a campaign to take away good people’s livelihoods. The horses are OK — they are not suffering.
Beth Podhajecki
Greenfield Center
My family members have been in the horse-carriage industry for 50 years. They love their horses and are part of New York’s culture.
The tragic and accidental death of Romanch Mahajan was beyond sad. Unfortunately in any line of work, accidents occur.
Safety on each level — for riders, drivers and the horses — are of the utmost importance for these horsemen.
Rita Zaidinski
Bethpage
Thousands across New York City protested for the “No Kings” movement. Yet, they fail to see the king in their own backyard.
How dare Mayor Mamdani ban a legal, longstanding industry?
These people love what they do, care deeply for their animals and are highly experienced in horsemanship. And they are heavily regulated.
The mayor was likely pushed by real-estate tycoons salivating over the stables’ land and used agenda-driven animal-rights fanatics as useful idiots.
Dianne Mullikin
Nipomo, Calif.
Horses, like people, need routine and purpose. One with a skill and proper training will be the safest and happiest.
Let the animal-rights activists put their efforts toward those truly abused, neglected and starving animals that end up at the auction houses, not these superbly trained and talented animals.
Who will pay these operators $20,000 each for these horses, then foot the bill to keep them for the next 15 years at hundreds of dollars a month? Think with your brains and not your bleeding hearts.
Paula Stewart
Hyde Park
The City Council is taking a lopsided approach. At least 28 people have died from e-bikes in New York City this year, compared to one tragic death from a horse-carriage accident.
Apparently the e-bike deaths are not tragic enough for e-bikes to be banned. Or perhaps it is the real estate that will be availed from the horse stables that is too precious to pass up.
Deirdre Harvey
Valley Stream
Please keep this tradition alive. The horses are clearly well cared for and this is the only way for most children in the city to meet horses.
J. McDermott
Manhattan
They claim a ban will protect the horses from the city environment (although there is no one complaining about the police horses) and they say they will provide job assistance to displaced workers. Those promises are rubbish.
I wish the mayor and City Council would admit that this is just a real-estate grab and another notch on PETA’s belt.
People with no knowledge of horses should not be making rules for them.
Barbara Steever
Green Lane, Pa.
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