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Drivers Are Livid After Vote to Ban NYC’s Horse Carriages

The City Council voted 40 to 7 to ban the carriages from Central Park starting in 2028. But the carriage drivers vowed to fight their loss of livelihood in court.

© Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times

A ban on carriage horses has been debated for years but finally received the needed political support after a tourist died in a fall over the summer.
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Does Congress Need to Approve the Arch? Trump Says It Did 100 Years Ago.

The administration says the arch fulfills the “historic design intent” of a proposal from the 1920s. But does it honor history or flout it?

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A photograph circa 1931 of Arlington Memorial Bridge with proposed columns by the architect William Mitchell Kendall drawn to scale.
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