The vote was reported on or around Oct. 22, 2026, by Bloomberg Markets, India Today and Clarín. The carriages have operated in or been associated with Central Park as a longstanding tourist practice, with Bloomberg describing the attraction as dating to the 19th century.
The decision followed years of political and public debate. Bloomberg Markets described the dispute as a decade-long battle, while Clarín reported that initiatives to end the practice had been debated for two decades.
Clarín reported that Mayor Zohran Mamdani supported the measure and that President Donald Trump criticized or questioned it, placing the ban at the center of a broader political disagreement over the carriages.
India Today framed the vote as following the death of an Indian tourist. The supplied report does not establish the tourist’s identity or the circumstances or timing of the death, so no further connection can be confirmed from the available material.
The available reports confirm the council vote but do not provide the text of the measure, its effective date or details of how the ban would be implemented. Those elements remain unresolved in the supplied source material.