Dozens of horse-carriage drivers and transit workers rallied outside a Manhattan NYC Council member’s office on Tuesday to protect a travel and tourism industry that provides work for hundreds of workers.

Members of Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, the union that represents horse-carriage workers, protested outside NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher’s office on the West Side to demand he and other politicians stop their campaign to end the horse-drawn carriage industry in NYC.

“It’s a disgrace that Erik Bottcher sides with the elite,” TWU Local 100 president John Chiarello said, as he encouraged politicians to visit the horse stables to see how the animals are cared for. “We don’t back down because the horse-carriage industry has been around since 1884.”

The union head said the ho

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