Mayor de Blasio ignoring Neeson’s invite to tour carriage horse stables

Gosh, you would think Liam Neeson would be out promoting his new film(s). Maybe he doesn't need to. This is doing it for him. He is certainly getting enough attention for trying to save the jobs of New York City's carriage horse drivers. Mayor de Blasio campaigned on the issue, saying that he would ban…

NYC horse carriage drivers seek help from anti-animal rights group

I understand the horse drawn carriage drivers of Manhattan are trying to save their jobs and horses. That is to be expected. However, I feel they are making a serious public relations error in hiring anti-animal rights group The Cavalry Group. As you will see below The Cavalry Group work against meaningful regulation and legislation…

NYC’s strange political brawl over carriage horses

Cross-posted from Politico.com NEW YORK — A political battle is raging here over an iconic mode of transportation you might have used if you visited the city this winter: not the subway or yellow cabs, but Central Park’s horse-drawn carriages. The fight centers on whether to ban the carriages out of concern for the horses’…

Oreo the reluctant NYC carriage horse traded to the Yankees

Following the trail of Oreo, the reluctant Manhattan carriage horse, who has now been traded to the Yankees The New York Post reports: MINDY LEVINE, a longtime animal-rights activist and wife of Yankee president Randy Levine, is adopting Oreo, the endearing brown-and-white carriage horse that made headlines last month by making a run for it…

Three injured when Manhattan carriage horse Oreo bolts and breaks free

Cross-posted from the New York Times Written by ANDY NEWMAN A spooked carriage horse burst out of line near Central Park on Thursday, thundered into the busy traffic on Columbus Circle, dumped his driver and two passengers, struck two cars, shed the wreckage of his carriage and ran free for four blocks before being captured…