This is a bigger deal than it might sound. Despite lots of consensus that the horse carriages are bad, it has taken years to get this done. It infamously stalled during De Blasio's mayoralty too, for example.
This is also an L for the TWU, and I suspect there will be more of those to come in the following months.
Not that I disagree but what has that consensus centered around?
Why can't they pass legislation to get the horses treated better instead of banning them?