Mamdani pressured to ban NYCs iconic horse carriage rides after teen tourists death

Animal-rights advocates urged Mayor Zohran Mamdani to unilaterally ban Central Park’s iconic horse carriages after a teen tourist’s tragic death – as the hansom cabbies’ union suspended passenger rides through Monday.Carriage drivers will review procedures during the “safety stand-down” called by the Transport Workers Union of America Local 100 union Friday, as opponents of the horse-drawn rides renewed calls to shut down the industry for good in light of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan death.“There must not be one more turn of a horse-drawn carriage wheel in New York City ever again,” Edita Birnkrant, head of New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets, told The Post on Friday.“No amount of regulation or reform can eliminate the risk by a 2,000-pound animal hard-wired to flee when frightened from bolting and claiming another life,” she said.“The operation of the carriages is currently under a self-imposed shutdown and Mayor Mamdani must make that shutdown permanent by executive order before another life is lost.”The renewed push to stop the longtime tourist attraction in the Manhattan park comes after a carriage horse took off Wednesday with a family from India in tow and while the driver was out of the buggy to snap a photo of the tourists, law enforcement sources have said.Gut-punching footage shows the animal race off and throw Mahajan to the ground before the buggy crashes.PETA also called on the mayor to halt the green space’s 68 carriages through executive order while the City Council considers the passage of Ryder’s Law, which would ban those types of rides in Central Park.“The fatal carriage incident this week — just one week after a horse named Deniz collapsed and died — was completely preventable, and is what happens when City Council sits on its hands and does nothing,” the organization said, referencing a carriage horse that died last week after eating a toxic plant in the park.“They need to get these dangerous car...