A 15-year-old carriage horse collapsed and died in Manhattan Tuesday, officials said, sparking renewed calls from activists and lawmakers to ban horse-drawn carriages in New York City.
The NYPD said officers responded around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday to a 911 call near West 51st Street and 11th Avenue in Hell’s Kitchen. When they arrived, they found the horse unresponsive on the ground.
Transport Workers Union Local 100 — which represents around 300 city horse-carriage drivers and owners — said the horse, named Lady, had been walking home to her stable from Central Park when she collapsed.
She had been working as a carriage horse in the city for less than two months, the union added.
“We are saddened to announce the death of Lady, a Standardbred Cross, who was 15 years old,” Christina Hansen,