Sentences with phrase «horse carriage drivers»

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.

Taylor claimed that horse carriage drivers make U-turns on Central Park South and are not ticketed, despite the fact that motorists get ticketed for behaving similarly.

Over the holiday weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio, the union representing horse carriage drivers and the City Council announced they had finally reached a deal to downsize the industry.

UPDATE: George Miranda, president of Teamsters Joint Council 16, which represents horse carriage drivers, said in a statement this morning that the de Blasio administration's bill to stop horse carriage rides by 2016 was done without input from the union, but that he and the members are «open to continued dialogue and discussion with the administration so we can find a solution that keeps the horses and drivers in Central Park.»

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.

Mr. Roberts mentioned further details that will impact how receptive the horse carriage drivers can be expected to be about losing their livelihoods in exchange for a green medallion.

But it has put him in opposition to several groups that are normally allies of the mayor — including the politically powerful and influential Teamsters and the Working Families Party, which have backed the horse carriage drivers.

Christina Hansen, a spokeswoman for the horse carriage drivers, in turn accused NYCLASS and other groups of lying about carriage horses — but said that as people learn more about the carriage horse industry through continued coverage of the issue, New Yorkers are showing carriage drivers «more support than ever.»

Also at 11 a.m., the horse carriage drivers hold a press conference, inside the Westside Livery Stables at 538 West 38th streets, Manhattan.

How many horse carriage drivers?

The horse carriage drivers do have a bit of star power on their side, though — actor Liam Neeson has been a vocal defender of the industry.

«Being a horse carriage driver is not transferrable to being a cab driver or a bus driver or a train driver.

Not exact matches

These regulations cover everything from «pedicab driver permits» to «limit on number of taxicabs allowed,» «transfer of decal, permit, or taxiplate interest prohibited,» «currently permitted companies, vehicles, and drivers grandfathered; renewal process,» and «operation of horse drawn carriages: requirements and prohibitions.»

The best part is that they will do to pesky, dangerous human drivers what the horseless carriage did to the horse and buggy: banish them from the roads.

They once went to Central Park and hired a carriage driver, for $ 250 an hour, to drive them all over New York, all the way back to the Lower East Side, where horse - drawn - carriages weren't supposed to go.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

NYCLASS, at least so far, has also met its match in the Teamsters union, representing the carriage drivers, and the Daily News, which has blasted the group in scathing editorials and launched a petition drive to keep the horses in Manhattan.

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.

Earlier today, Towleroad posted video of a disturbing incident which took place over LGBT Pride in which a carriage horse driver hurled racist, sexist, homophobic slurs at a group of women leafleting nearby, along with a letter from Martina Navratilova condemning the incident and urging Speaker Christine Quinn to do so as well.

The fliers hit the lawmakers for siding with «animal extremists» and include pictures of horse - carriage drivers whose «livelihood» is jeopardized by the ban.

Horse - carriage drivers are represented by Teamsters Joint Council 16, which is a member of the W.F.P., and recently proposed a list of compromises to the administration.

As any animal lover will tell you, the carriage drivers you support spew hate when anyone expresses concern for the horses they force to work in all weather extremes, and during Pride weekend it was captured on video.

Adding that it «would be wrong to deprive the drivers of their beloved horses and livelihood, and to deprive New York City of the quality jobs and the character that these horse - drawn carriages contribute,» she aimed her fire at NYCLASS.

Mr. de Blasio promised to ban the carriages, an alleged hazard to horses and also a source of steady income for 300 drivers, on «day one» of his administration.

«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.»

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

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

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.

Some 300 drivers are currently employed by the carriage horse industry.

«We think that is certainly a fair price to pay for a facility that needed to be upgraded anyway — it is a public building that so many will have for decades and decades to come, we think that's a fair price to pay for a stable that allows us to get all those horses and carriages off the streets in the city which has not been safe, not fair to the horses, not fair to the drivers,» de Blasio said on Monday.

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

In a statement, George Miranda, president of Joint Council 16, said the bill had moved forward «without input from the union that represents these drivers,» though he insisted «the Teamsters and our members in the carriage industry are open to continued dialogue and discussion with the administration so we can find a solution that keeps the horses and drivers in Central Park.»

Carriage drivers called a press conference at the West Side stables asking the city to include a guarantee in the plan that the stables will be completed before they are required to move the horses.

The plan also calls for restricting pedicabs from operating below 85th Street, severely downsizing the ground pedicabs are allowed to operate on and essentially freeing up the most popular parts of the park for the carriage horse drivers.

«I completely disagree with it,» said Ian McKeever, a carriage driver in the Teamsters Union, which has been fighting with the mayor to protect the industry and its 230 horses.

Carriage drivers from the Teamsters union struck back against Queens Councilman Danny Dromm today, rallying in his district against a proposed ban on horse - drawn carriages that the lawmaker enthusiastically endorses.

Carriage horse drivers are taking their fight against City Hall to the state Capitol Wednesday.

He will join carriage drivers and animal caretakers at the Clinton Park Stables on W. 52nd St. to showcase how the horses are treated.

«These guys treat these horses like their children,» Neeson said of the carriage drivers and horse owners.

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.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to corral the city's horse - carriages into Central Park is headed to the glue factory, after the union representing the drivers announced today it no longer backed the proposal.

(The Teamsters represent the carriage horse drivers.)

A horse drawn carriage driver waits for customers outside of Central Park.

(Carriage horse drivers and stable owners, meanwhile, have often accused those seeking a ban, including NYCLASS backer Steve Nislick, of being after their real estate, something they have denied.)

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.

It does mean that a driver should think twice about how much room he needs to pass another car, or a horse - drawn carriage, for that matter.

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.

The carriage from Woodford was approaching, trunks strapped to its roof, the horses bowing their way up the hill, the driver dabbing at their broad backs with his whip.

According to witnesses, the horse collapsed on the way back to the stables and the driver of the carriage kicked the horse once he was on the ground.

Most carriage drivers sand off these numbers to ensure the horses being sold to slaughterhouses are never connected back to the booming tourism enterprise.