Why Adams flipped on NYC’s horse carriage trade

Eric Adams, who once boasted of being mayor with “Swagger”, almost entered the federal prison in handcuffs. Federal prosecutors charged him with corruption and other crimes related to corruption. Adams avoided a probable trial and conviction only because the administration of President Trump surprisingly asked the judge to reject the case.

Has our arrogant mayor learned something?

This is a valid question because the mayor’s sudden support for the Ryder law, which would prohibit the horses’ transportation, feels worse than a manure truck. The Tong occurs after years of support for the transport drivers of Adams and after making promises not to make the Nyclass auctions, which has been looking for a ban on transport for more than 15 years.

Connect the points:

• NYCLASS was founded by real estate developers. Horses are housed in private stables on the west side of Manhattan. Forcing transport drivers and stable owners out of business would open the way for developers to dive, buy the properties and build skyscrapers, which makes the wealthy even richer.
• E-mails Obtained by journalists in 2017 revealed that the millionaire real estate magnate Steve Nislick, co-founder and president of Nyclass, discussed the construction of housing in the region where the main stable is located with the former Bill de Blasio mayor, while speaking of strategies to arouse prohibited walks.
• Adams appointed Nyclass lawyer, Randy Mastro, as first deputy mayor in March. He appointed Mastro to this post because the municipal council refused to approve the appointment of Mastro Adams to be the best lawyer in the city. Council members do not trust him.

Mastro represented NYCLASS when it was sentenced to a fine in 2013 nearly $ 40,000 for campaign financing violations linked to certain races of the municipal council. He also represented Nyclass, Nislick and the co-founder Wendy Neu, yet another millionaire developer, when they have been investigated by the State Commission on Ethics and Lobbying. They agreed in 2018 to pay a fine as part of $ 125,000 in donations that Nislick and Neu have made to a shaded non -profit organization created by Blasio to push its policies.

Adams is desperate. He died last in the polls. He lost against the former governor Cuomo, who was forced to resign after a barrage of allegations of sexual harassment. He even loses against Curtis Sliwa, who carries a red clowns beret. Sliwa would be a funny character if he was not a pathological liar. His past lies falsely include asserting that he was removed by NYPD police officers, just manufacturing to obtain advertising.

Adams embarked on me and the emeritus president of Twu Local 100 Tony Utano according to which he supported the drivers to transport horses, around 170 men and women blue collars who provide the emblematic rides of the Carrefour de Central Park. Adams knew that horses were not mistreated. He knew that these were major tourist jobs that support the family, mainly held by immigrants and immigrant children.

In fact, Adams has made significant improvements – requested for a long time by drivers and union – to improve animal welfare. For example, an additional hollow of granite water, installed for the first time in 1911, was moved from Brooklyn to the stand of transport horses in Seventh Ave. (the other two hacking stands had hollows of water). The mayor’s office, as well as the transport, environmental and parks protection services, were involved, as is the Central Parks Conservancy and the Monument Commission. The hollow was lit in the fall of 2023.

Anyone who has dealt with government bureaucracy knows that such coordination and action of several agencies could only occur with summit management.

Before announcing support for Ryder’s law, Adams did not even bother to consult the office of the department of health of the services to combat veterinarians and pests, which oversees the horse -drawn horses and has direct knowledge of their care. The department has published an opening for full time equine veterinarian Job on September 6. It would not have happened if the DOH had known that the mayor was about to switch.

Surprisingly, Adams does not even know what is in Ryder’s law. His civil servant Facebook Page says it will replace cars with “modern electric alternatives”. It was in a previous law proposed which did not succeed in the council.

NYCLASS has failed to ensure a ban on transport horses imposed by the municipal council in part because each horse and veterinary expert who visited the stables determined that horses are well treated by their drivers, veterinarians and stable staff 24 hours a day. Despite the isolated incidents for selection of cherries in NYCLASS to demonize the drivers and the controversy, the experts found no abuse systemic.

Many have been disconcerted by the sudden betrayal of Adams of transport horses drivers. We believe that a lot of money, real estate money is involved. This sudden turnaround stinks to the high sky.

Samuelsen is the international president of the Transport Workers’ Syndicate, which represents drivers of horse -drawn horse.