Overview
- Video shows the horse running from Central Park into the Sixth Avenue and West 59th Street intersection Thursday morning and striking four to five vehicles, police said.
- No injuries were reported and police said several of the vehicles were unoccupied; the horse’s condition remains unknown, according to NYCLASS.
- A source said the animal had been left unattended, while the drivers’ union says the driver stood near the horse and that a fast delivery vehicle startled it.
- NYCLASS labeled the incident reckless endangerment and renewed its push for Ryder’s Law with plans to work with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
- The Transport Workers Union defended drivers as hardworking immigrants and is weighing internal action while promoting ideas like a Central Park stable; recent regulatory steps under Eric Adams were revoked by the new administration.