Hold your horses? TWU threatens legal action if City Council passes horse carriage ban Thursday

By Ethan Stark-Miller

Posted on October 21, 2026

If the City Council moves ahead with approving legislation to ban horse carriages in Central Park on Thursday, as it is all but certain to do, the union representing hansom cab drivers and owners threatened on Oct. 21 to immediately take legal action.

Arthur Schwartz, an attorney for the union Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, leveled the threat in a letter to city Corporation Counsel Steve Banks on Wednesday. Banks represents both the mayoral administration and the City Council in legal matters.

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