You’ll still be able to ride a horse-drawn carriage in New York City, but as correspondent Paul Harlan reports, you’ll be seeing a lot less of the Big Apple than you used to: Horse droppings were one concern of New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who wanted to end the tradition of horse-drawn carriages in the Big Apple. Horse and nostalgia lovers were up in arms, but it now seems like a compromise has been worked out. Starting this June, a reduced number of carriages will be licensed, and they’ll only be able to operate in New York’s famed Central Park. Mayor DeBlasio called for the ban on animal rights grounds, saying it was inhumane to have the horses in such a congested urban setting. But he was fought tooth and nail, or is that hoof and mane, for two years before this agreement was hammered out. It’s unclear what the compromise might mean for other cities with horse-drawn carriages, such as Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Honolulu.
