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A tourist's death put an industry that's outlasted a dozen mayors on the clock for one City Council vote.
The City Council's Health Committee holds a hearing today on Romanch's Law, renamed for 18-year-old tourist Romanch Mahajan, who died June 17 when his carriage horse bolted, the industry's eighth on-the-job incident since May 2025 [2]. Speaker Julie Menin became the first sitting Council speaker to back a ban [69]. Mayor Mamdani supports ending the industry too, but calls the bill's worker protections insufficient [84]. Transport Workers Union Local 100, representing roughly 200 carriage workers, opposes the ban [84].
“[Romanch's] death was heartbreaking, and it was preventable.”
“One horse makes an accident, and the world is destroyed? Come on.”
The bacteria that killed seven people in Harlem last year is back, and this time it's reached the Met.
City health officials ordered 76 buildings, including the Met Museum and the $68,250-a-year Chapin School, to disinfect Legionella-positive cooling towers as the Upper East Side outbreak reached 63 confirmed cases [50][68]. Separately, The City Reporter found 560 cooling towers citywide, including nine at buildings that tested positive, have never submitted a required Legionella test [40]. Fifty-two of the sick have been hospitalized; no deaths have been reported [50].
“I am deeply concerned that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has still failed to require building owners to proactively disinfect all cooling towers in the area.”
“This is by far the most aggressive we've ever been.”
New York just told AI's biggest builders to wait a year, and dared other states to follow.
Gov. Hochul signed the nation's first statewide moratorium on data centers using 50 or more megawatts, pausing permits for up to a year while regulators write rules on water and energy use [31][102]. The order is narrower than the Legislature's own bill, which set the threshold at 20 megawatts and remains unsigned [26]. Hospitals, schools and bank back-office data centers are exempt [31].
“As data center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it's my responsibility to take action and lead.”
“Grid modernization costs don't disappear when data centers do. They shift onto everyday New Yorkers, who will shoulder a larger share of infrastructure modernization.”
On Sunday, hundreds of men in Williamsburg hoisted a 4-ton, 70-foot Giglio tower onto their shoulders and danced it down Havemeyer Street for the 139th year running, a tradition immigrants carried over from Nola, Italy in 1887. Third- and fourth-generation lifters flew in from Florida, New Jersey and Long Island just for the day, most of them no longer living anywhere near the neighborhood. "What once was just an Italian tradition has, for a lot of people, become kind of a neighborhood tradition," longtime lifter John Perrone said. "You know, we have plenty of 'Smiths' and 'Flynns' who march, too." [96]