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Cindy Anthony Favia testifies remotely supporting ban

New York City Council · Jul 15, 2026 · starts 9:00:29 · 2 min 48 sec

Cindy Anthony Favia testifies remotely about her two children being animal rights activists since ages 7 and 9, her daughter questioning why horses are in the city, and 10+ years of protesting carriage horses.

Lynn C. Schulman

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Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

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Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Hello?

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Yes.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Hello.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

I'm sorry.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

I'm just getting my paper here.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

I'm sorry.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Well, my name is Cindy Anthony Fabian.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And I'm...

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Sorry.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

So the reason why I'm speaking here is because I have two children that have been involved in the animal rights community since they're seven and nine years old.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

They are now 20 and 22.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And they have stood on the line as animal rights activists.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

When my daughter was a little girl, she saw the carriage horses in Manhattan.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And she had said, why are those horses here?

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Aren't they supposed to be where there's grass and there's green fields and everything like that?

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Why are they breathing up all that garbage from the buses and everything?

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And she used to always question that.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And then.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

We started standing there and asking, why are they still there?

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And so the reason they've stood there for all those years, they have gone and protested and everything through the blase on everybody.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

So they've been involved in this for 10 plus years.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

The carriage horse.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

has to be out of New York.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And it needs to end now.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

And it's not a form of transportation.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

My daughter told me that when she was nine years old, that that is not transportation.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

We have buses clearly that

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Everybody could see trains, cabs, pedicabs, everything like that, their own feet.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

The horses are not here to be used by anybody like that.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

So that's the reason why I stood here.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

We don't need any more lost.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Humans or animals and you need to pass please please for my children's sake

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Please pass intro 943.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Let the horses, let them live out happy lives now, please.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

I thank you for your time.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

Thank you for allowing me to talk and appreciate everything.

Lynn C. Schulman

Thank you very much.

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Car Pelletieri.

Member of the Public - Cindy Anthony Favia

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Corpelatory.

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