Activism & Animals Active Updated Aug 18, 2026
NYC's carriage horse ban fight
New York City's Council is weighing Intro 943, a bill to phase out horse-drawn carriages, after 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan died in a June crash involving a carriage horse. The bill, renamed Romanch's Law, would end the roughly 150-year-old industry by June 2028 and has drawn its first-ever sitting Council Speaker endorsement, reviving a fight past bills repeatedly lost.
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Aug 18, 2026 Latest
Intro 943, renamed Romanch's Law after 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan's death in a June carriage-horse crash, won the backing of a sitting New York City Council Speaker for the first time, with 26 sponsors now supporting the bill that would end the city's roughly 68-carriage industry by June 2028.
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