Emotions ran hot during a Wednesday City Council hearing on Romanch’s Law, a bill that would ban horse carriage operations in Central Park named for Romanch Mahajan — the teenager killed in an incident involving one of the equine-drawn cabs last month.
The hours-long July 15 hearing was the first on the measure since it was introduced four years ago as Ryder’s Law, named for a horse that collapsed on a Midtown street on a hot summer day in 2022. It saw both proponents of the bill and its detractors give emotional testimony and clash over its implications.
