Posted on 12/08/2014 5:16:53 PM PST by george76
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's bill to ban horse-drawn carriages reached the City Council on Monday, in a move to phase out the carriages that often give tours around Central Park.
The legislation says that as of June 1, 2016, "it shall be unlawful to operate a horse-drawn vehicle in the city of New York or offer rides to the public on a vehicle drawn or pulled by a carriage horse."
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It also boosts the penalty for breaking horse-carriage rules to a maximum of $25,000 instead of the current $500.
The proposed ban was introduced one day after the editorial board of The New York Times urged, "Dump the bill. Keep the horses." ..
"Why eliminate an entire class of Teamsters union jobs? How will the horses escape slaughter? What will happen to the stables, on coveted property on the West Side of Manhattan? (Not for nothing do people wonder why the force behind NYClass, the group pushing the anticarriage crusade, is a real estate developer, Stephen Nislick.) And does this have anything to do with the $1 million ad campaign financed by NYClass to eliminate Mr. de Blasio's main rival in the primary, then-Council Speaker (and carriage defender) Christine Quinn? Why are no advocates talking about getting rid of Police Department horses, which have tougher jobs than carriage horses?"
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two Quinnipiac University polls taken this year have found more than 60 percent of New York voters don't want the horse-drawn carriages to be banned.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Winner!
NY City pols just testing the waters to see how much more money they can extort from carriage operators.
leftist cronyism at work
Could somebody please explain to me just exactly what is this dimwit mayor’s problem with the horse-drawn carridges?
Someone wants the land where the horses are stabled. He has added a million of his own dollars to get rid of the stables, and develop the land. He is a crook.
The bad guy in this drama, according to the carriage drivers, is Steve Nislick, chief executive officer of a New Jersey-based real-estate development company, Edison Properties.
Currently, the stables consist of 64,000 square feet of valuable real estate on lots that could accomodate up to 150,000 square feet of development. These lots could be sold for new development
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3108939/posts
Could This Be the Real Reason the New NYC Mayor Vowed to Ban Horse Carriages in NYC?.
A major de Blasio campaign donor and real-estate executive
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3109418/posts
Ju$t DiBla$io tran$ferring the real e$tate the livery $table $its on to hi$ friend$.
New Yorkers that voted for him are getting what they deserve. I don’t feel sorry for them at all. Wonder how many of the drivers of the buggies voted for DeBlassio? I hate to see them lose their jobs.
Ban Beefaroni!
A crooked Politian; what a surprise! sarc/
Thanks george76.
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