City Council members are introducing a new version of a bill banning horse carriages from Central Park — but it will no longer feature incentives for drivers to switch to electric horseless carriages and retire their steeds.
Queens Council Member Robert Holden is introducing Intro 967 — the new bill dubbed “Ryder’s Law” in memory of the elderly carriage horse who collapsed on a Midtown street during a heat wave and died a few months later — in a bid to ban what he calls a “barbaric” industry from the five boroughs.
