Sentences with phrase «carriage drivers who»

Ms. Lynch, supported by the Teamsters and other unions, said she also disagreed with the mayor's plan to ban the organized horse carriage drivers who give tours of Central Park and the surrounding area.

And the city would cover the cost of certain green - taxi licensing fees for carriage drivers who are eligible.

De Blasio was also heckled by a handful of horse - carriage drivers who oppose his effort to ban the industry.

«I appreciate the vocal conversation that this issue has generated, but the more I study this issue, the more clear it is to me that the carriage horses are well - treated, in most cases by carriage drivers who grew up with horses on farms.»

According to the release, Espinal will appear at the press conference with Demos Demopoulos, president of Teamsters Local 553, and Steve Malone, a carriage driver who has served as a spokesman for the carriage drivers.

Not exact matches

A deal wrangled by de Blasio — who famously vowed to ban the buggy rides his first week on the job — collapsed early last year after the union representing carriage drivers yanked their support.

But several aspects of the plan — including the use of $ 25 million in taxpayer money to turn public property into a stable for the private carriage industry, the move to curtail the pedicab industry, the loss of carriage driver jobs and the resulting shuttering the current stables on the West Side — have aroused considerable opposition from various corners, most recently from 68 owners of horse carriage medallions, who blasted their union for agreeing to the deal.

The city's tabloids have occasionally pounded the de Blasio administration for their pet causes (who knew carriage horse drivers had so many friends?).

Along with Nislick's and Neu's direct contributions to de Blasio's campaign, both they and NYCLASS funded a PAC called New York City is Not for Sale, which, in turn, underwrote ads attacking Christine Quinn, who defends the carriage drivers, and who was at the time considered to be the Democratic front - runner.

In an effort to fulfill that promise, he has worked out a compromise with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and the Teamsters (who represent the horse carriage drivers) to shrink the number of horse carriages and house them in a more spacious stables in Central Park.

«Three hundred carriage drivers — men and women who have devoted their lives to caring for horses — will be unemployed if this bill is passed.»

On the other, there were Mr. de Blasio's typical allies in the world of organized labor, who represent the carriage drivers and the jobs they might have lost if the industry had been banned completely.

The union made headlines in the past year for representing horse - carriage drivers in their fight with Mr. de Blasio, who has sought to ban horse - drawn carriages from city streets.

Christina Hansen and Stephen Malone represent the community of working class carriage drivers, who fight a battle...

At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.