It’s amazing how much manure is produced by the elite interests trying to bully horse carriages out of Central Park.

The latest is Central Park Conservancy President Betsy Smith coming out in favor of a City Council bill to ban the carriages citywide.

“With visitation to the park growing to record levels,” she claims, the ban is “a matter of public health and safety for park visitors.”

In other words: Add the Conservancy to the long list of local nonprofits playing politics.

In fact, it’s been making life harder for the horses and their trade for years now: The CPC’s recent street-markings update failed “to designate a mixed-use lane for carriages to use as there had been,” notes Pete Donohue, president of Transport Workers Union of America, the union that reps the carriage drivers.

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