New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that his administration would pursue offering compensation for workers in the horse carriage industry as the city moves to ban the use of horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.
“We want it to be real and tangible,” Mamdani said at an unrelated press conference in Sunset Park.
While he noted that conversations are ongoing about what form the compensation would ultimately take, the mayor’s confirmation that this was something he’d pursue offered some insight on how the Mamdani administration will address the economic fallout from ending the industry for the roughly 200 carriage owners, drivers and stablehands who depend on it…