It’s October 17, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined City Council Speaker Julie Menin in calling for the end of the city’s horse carriage industry, marking what looks to be the final chapter in a saga that began some 16 years ago, though it seems closer to a century.
Mamdani was apparently compelled to act after a carriage crash killed a tourist earlier this year, though the move puts the mayor at odds with the Transport Workers Union, which represents carriage operators and has dropped a ton of coin in opposition to a ban.
The council vote, scheduled for next Thursday, looks like a fait accompli.
Its own self-interest aside, TWU rightly contends that there’s nothing in the proposed legislation to guarantee what the bill terms the “humane disposition” of retired horses.
The union might also point out that the politicians now promising horsey heaven on earth are the same ones who endorse without qualification the perpetual wholesale slaughter of healthy and adoptable companion animals at the New York City kill pound.
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