“It’s over,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, two days before his swearing in. “We are going to quickly and aggressively move to make horse carriages no longer a part of the landscape in New York City. They are not humane. They are not appropriate to the year 2014.”
And word on the street is that de Blasio supporter, rich real estate developer, Steve Nislick has an eye on the carriage horse stables and a hand in Bill de Blasio’s pocket.
According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, “Edison Properties, LLC operates as a real estate manager and developer. It owns and operates parking facilities in New York, New Jersey, and Maryland; mini storage stores in New York; and workspace and office buildings. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Newark, New Jersey.”
Bloomberg adds that Nislick’s business owns more than 40 parking facilities around New York, New Jersey, and Baltimore, according to the Edison Properties website which also promotes storage facilities and office space.
Nislick and his company supposedly covet the valuable stable properties where NYC carriage horses are housed. It is no stretch to see how a stable housing 1,500 pound draft horses could easily be converted to a parking garage or storage facility. Four such stables serve Manhattan.
I thought the new mayor supported "the little guy" or the working people of New York. Apparently not in this case. You can read more here:
https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/7793-savenychorsecarriages
http://theothermccain.com/2014/01/06/will-de-blasio-get-away-with-this/
Politics never change. Politicians are just......well, politicians. I detest them all.......
Unbelievable. Well, believable in politics but still unbelievable and detestable.
ReplyDeleteGreed and lunacy, plain and simple. We New Yorkers deserve so much more than this disingenuous tool who has become mayor.
ReplyDeleteThe carriage horses are a treasured part of the NYC scene and New York's history. Has anyone stopped to think about what will become of all the horses? Frolicking in green pastures? I think not... :-( Not to mention the drivers and other humans associated with them, most of whom I'm sure truly love the horses.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the pundits are correct and this developer is in bed with the Mayor, and using the guise of "cruelty to animals" to further his own interests. I bet those stables will be torn down in a flash. The whole thing makes me sorry that I only ever took one ride through Central Park, but at least I have that memory.
savenychorsecarriages.com
ReplyDeletePlease help fight de Blasio's plan.