Here’s What It’s Like To Take A Spin In A Horseless Carriage
November 7, 2014 | Prachi Gupta
If Mayor Bill de Blasio has anything to say about it, antique-styled electric cars are the wave of the future for New York’s grand carriage tours. Animal rights organization NYCLASS has been pushing for reform since 2008, concerned that the current horse-driven carriage operations in and around Central Park mistreat the animals. The eCarriage, pictured above, debuted at the NY Auto show in May.
If, like most people, you experience everything by watching others experience things in videos on the internet, you can ride in a horseless carriage with ANIMAL. Enjoy a virtual stroll through Central Park fielding curious glances from other drivers, dirty looks from New York’s horse-and-carriage operators, apathetic cops, and even catch a glimpse of The Pretenders’s lead singer and PETA spokesperson Chrissie Hynde, who rode a carriage to her November 5th show. What’s more romantic than that?
Bill de Blasio's plan to ban horse-and-carriage rides in NYC has hit some setbacks, but the mayor says he remains committed to getting the despondent animals off the street. Today at the New York Auto Show, the anti-carriage organization NYCLASS unveiled the electric, vintage-style car it has long touted as…
As expected, Mayor Bill de Blasio has closed off traffic in Central Park, north of 72nd Street on the East and West Drives, the Observer reports. There's one type of vehicle, however, that will be allowed: the horseless carriage. One of de Blasio's first campaign pledges was to ban horse-drawn…
Protestors gathered earlier today at Midtown’s Clinton Park Stable to stand up for a horse named Caesar, an asthma-stricken 22-year-old whose shady carriage driver falsified records by switching hoof identification and passed him off as a healthy 12-year-old buck. About 45 people showed up, holding NYCLASS and PETA banners. "The carriage industry has four stables,"…
