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"They're violating the law now and the City of New York is doing nothing about it."
Council Member Tony Avella at the January 30, 2009 hearing.
How the NYC Carriage Industry overcharges and gets away with it... a lesson in fraud.
This is the law dictating the legal rate for a carriage ride:
NYC Administrative Code, Title 20, Chapter 2 - Licenses, Subchapter 21 - Sight-Seeing Buses, Horse-Drawn Cabs and Drivers
ยง 20-380
Rates of horse drawn cabs. The amount to be
charged and collected for the use of a horse drawn cab by
one or more passengers shall be the
total of the following items: thirty-four dollars for the first half-hour or fraction, the fraction of the half-hour shall be at the passenger's option, and ten dollars for each additional fifteen minutes thereafter.
The
carriage industry overcharges. There is no question about it.
They do so on the street and they do so on their commercial web
sites. The City Agencies, including the Department of Consumer
Affairs, turns the other way. They either cannot or will not
enforce the law.
It is the Wild Wild West at the hack line.
THE PROOF
Youtube Videos
Overcharging Tourists
Testimony at City Council 1/30/09 hearing
Council Member Tony Avella on rates 1/30/09 hearing
Newspaper & Online Accounts
Taken for a Ride - NY Post - 11/15/09
Blog - Don't Get Taken for a Ride 2/13/09
Industry Websites that overcharge significantly and get away with it
New York Tours - charges $125 to $173 for 40 minutes
Gotham Carriages - charges $58 for 25 minutes up to $120 for 40 minutes
Manhattan Carriage Company - Charges $34 for 17 minutes, but does not list any other price; asks unsuspecting tourists to call
Kensington Stables - $90 for 40 minutes
Coalition To Ban
Horse-Drawn Carriages
A Committee of the Coalition For New York City Animals, Inc.
Contact:
The Coalition for
NYC Animals, Inc.
P.O. Box 20247
Park West Station
New York, NY 10025
e-mail
Coalition@banhdc.org
To honor
Bobby II Freedom
previously known as Billy
ID# 2873
rescued by the Coalition to
Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages and
Equine Advocates on June 25, 2010
from the New Holland auctions.
In memory of
Lilly Rose O'Reilly
previously known
as Dada ID# 2711
R.I.P.August, 2007