Sentences with phrase «carriage industry»
The phrase "carriage industry" refers to businesses involved in making carriages in the past, when horses were commonly used for transportation instead of cars. Nowadays, the term can also include companies that create or sell modern vehicle accessories. Full definition
They want to see the horse carriage industry stay in the city.
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The horse drawn carriage industry is just that, an industry.
Was he somehow mistakenly sent there, without his former carriage industry owners realizing it?
Due to the secretive nature of the horse - drawn carriage industry, very few horses are rescued from this life.
Charleston Animal Society and its CEO Joe Elmore are under attack from individuals in the horse carriage industry in Charleston.
Should the New York City Council on Friday approve a bill to house a shrunken horse carriage industry inside Central Park — and banish pedicabs from the park's southern precincts — it will promptly encounter a lawsuit.
«The New York City Central Labor Council will continue to stand with the hardworking men and women of the NYC horse carriage industry as they fight to protect and sustain the livelihoods of 300 working families,» Alvarez said as recently as this past December.
Charleston Animal Society is requesting a comprehensive, peer - reviewed study of the Charleston carriage industry using a science - based approach.
Opponents of the horse - drawn carriage industry also got an audience with the mayor.
The American Farm Bureau Federation — in an unusual foray into Big Apple politics — is calling on de Blasio to drop his plans to ban the horse and carriage industry from the city because it's being pushed by people with no horse sense.
De Blasio and all but one NYC Council member have so far declined to respond to an invite from actor and advocate for the embattled horse - drawn carriage industry Liam Nisson to tour NYC's largest stable on Sunday.
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.
PETA spokeswoman Martina Navratilova has sent a letter to NYC City Council speaker Christine Quinn on the group's behalf condemning the horse - drawn carriage industry following a disturbing incident over LGBT Pride weekend which was captured on video in which a group of women leafleting near the carriages were verbally assaulted with homophobic and racist slurs by one of the drivers.
The Transport Workers Union said it will sue the mayor and the City Council, should they pass a law to move a diminished horse carriage industry into Central Park and ban pedicabs outside the park's tourist areas.
In a nod to a group of animal - rights activists who helped bankroll a campaign against one of de Blasio's mayoral opponents last year, the bill would phase out the horse - carriage industry by 2016 through a two - pronged approach: making it illegal to operate the carriages and not renewing the licenses when they expire in May of that year.
Neeson, a leading advocate for the embattled carriage industry, has invited Mayor de Blasio and all 51 City Council members to tour the largest stable on Sunday.
Local 553 represents at least 300 horse - carriage industry workers, including drivers who fear they will lose their job if de Blasio's proposed ban takes effect.
A trio of city council members and several animal rights groups rallied outside City Hall today to support legislation that would ban the horse carriage industry in New York.
The NYC Council could vote as early as next week on a controversial bill that would move the horse carriage industry inside Central Park.
«The New York City Central Labor Council will continue to stand with the hardworking men and women of the NYC horse carriage industry as they fight to protect and sustain the livelihoods of 300 working families,» Alvarez said in the statement.
Navratilova says the incident is just further proof that the NYC horse - drawn carriage industry, given recent accidents which have led to horse and human injuries, needs an overhaul, and urges Quinn to change her position on the issue.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council announced a deal «in concept» late on Sunday evening that would severely downsize the horse carriage industry in the city and confine it to Central Park, after weeks of intense of negotiation between the mayor, the City Council and the union representing the carriage drivers.
Councilman Rafael Espinal Jr., Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Committee (which currently has oversight of the carriage industry) held a press conference and officially announced he'll oppose the elimination of carriage horses in Central Park.
During the mayoral primary, «NYCLASS's political consultant Scott Levenson of the Advance Group (a lobbying and consulting firm) told two Quinn aides that if she wouldn't back a ban on the horse and carriage industry, the group would launch a campaign to bring her down.
Councilmember Rafael Espinal, Chair of Consumer Affairs, has publically come out for the carriage industry and against the ban.
Now Mr. de Blasio is in full support of a ban of the horse carriage industry, a top priority for NYCLASS.
Just a weeks after some of his top staffers faced ridicule from the City Council over their apparent cluelessness about key details about his plan to regulate the horse - carriage industry, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he believed the body would surely pass the proposal.
«I just think with the tabloids finding more interest in what we accomplished during the mayoral race than how inhumane the horse carriage industry is distracting from that struggle.
Misrepresenting this arrangement as independent brought NYCLASS, now pushing City Hall to ban the horse carriage industry, another $ 10,000 fine.
Stable owners, cart drivers, park advocates and pedicab cyclists are bristling at Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Council's plan to rein in the horse carriage industry.
Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who previously called the carriage industry «inhumane,» testily defended the plan and scoffed at suggestions that the plan would poorly allocate city funds.
The raises are scheduled to be voted on Friday, the same day members will be asked to approve Mayor de Blasio's bill to downsize the horse - carriage industry and limit the animals to Central Park.
Johnson backs reforming the horse carriage industry — a persistent third rail for city pols and a de Blasio priority.
New Yorkers for Clean, Safe and Livable Streets, a prominent animal rights group that helped propel Mayor Bill de Blasio to victory last year, has begun a Twitter campaign against Mr. Weprin after he introduced legislation that would curb the city's power to end the controversial horse - drawn carriage industry.
With that being said, the Queens - Politics editorial board would like to say that Quinn and her merry band of influence peddlers should have been thanking God for the nice run they had instead of attacking His little ones in the womb and disrespecting His creation in the horse and carriage industry.
Now that a Mayor Bill de Blasio - backed bill to ban the horse carriage industry has been introduced in the City Council, the influential animal rights group is turning up the heat on lawmakers by mailing graphic postcards to all 51 council members every day until the carriage - banning legislation is passed.
After months of speculation and dueling rallies on the City Hall steps, Council members Daniel Dromm and Ydanis Rodriguez introduced legislation today aimed at banning the city's horse carriage industry, which would fulfill a campaign promise from Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The New York State ALF - CIO is supporting the Teamsters of Local 553 in their bid to shut down a Council proposal to ban the horse - drawn carriage industry, introduced at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's behest.
Animal rights activists who have been trying to ban the carriage industry for years placed the blame for the deal's demise squarely on Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.
Brooklyn Councilman David Greenfield, who voiced concerns about a push by the mayor and NYC Council speaker to shrink the horse - carriage industry, was booted from two prominent committees.
In a significant political blow to Mayor Bill de Blasio, the New York City Council decided to abandon its scheduled vote on a bill to restrict the horse - drawn carriage industry to Central Park after a key supporter of the deal — the Teamsters — rescinded its backing.
Park and animal rights advocates joined forces yesterday to protest the compromise plan to move the horse carriage industry to stables inside Central Park.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said today legislation with the eventual goal of banning the city's horse carriage industry — a campaign promise he said he'd get to on «day one» — will be introduced soon.
(De Blasio promised during his campaign to end the horse - carriage industry in his first week as mayor, but has yet to persuade the Council to pass any legislation to that effect.)
That pits the Council against Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents the horse - carriage drivers and is supporting the de Blasio plan, which not only calls for shrinking the horse carriage industry and moving it to Central Park, but also banning pedicabs from the park's southern, tourist - heavy precincts.
Mark - Viverito also defended the council over the collapse earlier this month of de Blasio's years - in - the - making plan to shrink the horse - drawn carriage industry.