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🐴 NYCLASS works to to end carriage horse abuse and gain legal protections for all animals through legislative action and activism.📣
New York City
Joined January 2011
Last month a horse collapsed & died. Last week another ran wild. 71% of New Yorkers + even the Central Park Conservancy demand a ban — but @NYCSpeakerAdams is single-handedly blocking this life-saving legislation and won’t even allow a hearing. PASS RYDER’S LAW NOW.
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🚨 We went to @NYCSpeakerAdams’ office at City Hall. She’s blocking #RydersLaw from advancing —just last week a horse ran wild, passengers had to jump for their lives, countless parkgoers ran in terror, and a pregnant woman at her baby shower was nearly trampled. 👉 More below.
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I’ll preview this rally this morning on @1010WINS
🚨1 week ago a horse ran wild in Central Park. Weeks earlier, another horse collapsed & died on 11th Ave. 📢 Rally WED Sept 10, 12:45 PM @ City Hall. @CentralParkNYC, 71% of NYers & even Edie Falco demand a ban. @NYCSpeakerAdams is gambling with lives by blocking #RydersLaw.
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🚨1 week ago a horse ran wild in Central Park. Weeks earlier, another horse collapsed & died on 11th Ave. 📢 Rally WED Sept 10, 12:45 PM @ City Hall. @CentralParkNYC, 71% of NYers & even Edie Falco demand a ban. @NYCSpeakerAdams is gambling with lives by blocking #RydersLaw.
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If you've ever dreamed about taking a carriage ride in NYC, then this one’s for you 💔 Horses forced to give rides can be spooked by crowds, traffic, & loud city noises, all of which define NYC! Some are so overworked that they collapse & die right on the street 😔
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LIES AND WRONGFUL ACCUSATIONS: @TWULocal100 and @CarriageCavalry on record with @amNewYork 9/2/25 stated garbage truck loudly grinding gears tailgating and HIT carriage. Today Hansen on @wbai says extra loud tailgating so close "practically touching". Not behaving normally. 1of3
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Huge thanks to @JackHites for having us on to expose the truth about NYC’s carriage horse crisis. 🐴 New Yorkers are DONE with horses collapsing, running wild, and dying in the streets. It’s time to pass #RydersLaw and end this cruelty once and for all. ➡️
On today's Animal Matters on @WBAI 99.5 FM, I dove into the debate over carriage horses in NYC with guests: Edita Birnkrant, Executive Director of @nyclass, and Christina Hansen, Shop Steward at TWU Local 100. @TWULocal100
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🐴 Sun 9AM on @WBAI 99.5 FM we join host @JackHites on Animal Matters. Truth vs lies: I’ll expose cruelty & public danger while debating paid liar & abuse apologist Christina Hansen. 🚨On Monday a spooked horse rampaged & nearly trampled people. 🎧 https://t.co/yWsrlow02n
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I feel VERY sorry for these horses!! Having them “work” in one of the most populated cities in the world, in extreme weather, continuous, high volume traffic, high frequency noise, that sounds like animal cruelty to me! @peta @PETAUK @aspca @ALDF
🚨BREAKING: RUNAWAY HORSE🚨 Today in Central Park a terrified horse bolted out of control, smashing through signs. Passengers leapt from the carriage to survive as crowds ran for their lives. @NYCSpeakerAdams @Lynn4NYC @NYCMayor: Pass #RydersLaw 👉 https://t.co/KkxjTC1SaO
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👏 Huge thanks to @NYPDCentralPark for FINALLY cracking down on lawless carriage drivers who’ve long endangered horses & parkgoers with illegal soliciting and blocking bike lanes. Grateful to @CentralParkNYC for recently highlighting these dangers in their letter to City Hall.
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Good job @NYPDCentralPark @nyclass @NYCMayor @ebottcher @another horse carriage driver illegally standing, at tavern on the green, and illegally pickup , they always go wrong way in central park. hey 🫳 @JillAdamski stop breaking the law with the horse.
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🚨A pregnant woman at her baby shower barely escaped being trampled — passengers jumped out, park-goers ran for their lives. @NYCSpeakerAdams is blocking #RydersLaw. Is she waiting for human deaths before she acts? @CMCrystalHudson @CarmenForNYC ➡️
Story here 👉️ https://t.co/nCnikRb9Xk | It is the third time a carriage horse has taken off running in Central Park this year.
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Central Park Conservancy backs NYC horse carriage ban, citing safety and damage https://t.co/TRnrsuNqjA
gothamist.com
The park’s stewards say carriages are a public safety risk and harm infrastructure, and are urging the City Council to pass Ryder’s Law.
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In a 1,700 word hit piece about #AnimalRights activists who rescue animals from factory farms and slaughterhouses, @nytimes reporter Soumya Karlamanglia not only humane washes animal agriculture and marginalizes the activists as "radical" and "extreme," but she also omits the
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If you come to NYC do not give these people money to continue the cruelty of these animals. NY’ers hate this shit- these animals should be on a farm. Take a pedicab around the park. They’ll play New York New York.
🚨BREAKING: RUNAWAY HORSE🚨 Today in Central Park a terrified horse bolted out of control, smashing through signs. Passengers leapt from the carriage to survive as crowds ran for their lives. @NYCSpeakerAdams @Lynn4NYC @NYCMayor: Pass #RydersLaw 👉 https://t.co/KkxjTC1SaO
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In August, a horse collapsed & died, & another ran frantically in Central Park. Actor & New Yorker, Edie Falco, knew she had to help ban horse carriages in NYC. She sent a letter to urge NYC's council to pass Ryder's Law, which has been blocked for years. Thanks for speaking up!
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Why is @NYCMayor and the @NYCCouncil still allowing this everyday blatant animal abuse
🚨BREAKING: RUNAWAY HORSE🚨 Today in Central Park a terrified horse bolted out of control, smashing through signs. Passengers leapt from the carriage to survive as crowds ran for their lives. @NYCSpeakerAdams @Lynn4NYC @NYCMayor: Pass #RydersLaw 👉 https://t.co/KkxjTC1SaO
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.@NYCSpeakerAdams been single-handedly blocking #RydersLaw and that needs to end now. Speaker Adams + @NYCMayor must shut down horse carriages on an emergency basis to protect public safety before more people & horses are injured/killed.
amny.com
A video on social media shows a horse-drawn carriage running on a path in Central Park as people jump out of the way.
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🚨NYC residents: CALL your own Council Member TODAY. Tell them to cosponsor & fast-track #RydersLaw before more horses crash and run wild or people are killed. Find yours here 👉 https://t.co/WIq7lKEnfK
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