Cruising around Central Park in a horse drawn carriage is a tourist favorite in New York, but the industry has long been under fire for violating of safety regulations and ignoring the well being of the horses.

It’s a smelly problem that New York City apparently doesn’t want a whiff of – horse manure left by carriage horses has some people furious.

Electric cars could replace the famous New York's carriages, but to can take over those mythical vehicle they can't use any electric vehicle, it has to be special! With a look straight out of the early 20th century here is the "Brass".

New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets (NYCLASS) joined together with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in Manhattan Friday to reveal a scale model of a fully electric vintage-replica car.

The fine folks at NYClass want to get the carriage horses off the mean streets of NYC and for good reason.

The burden of horses forced to lug around tourists in Central Park could be lifted by a "faux-vintage electric car," a $12,500 two-foot model of which made its debut yesterday.

A nonprofit organization unveiled a vintage-replica electric car model inspired from a 1909 style that they hope could replace the horse-drawn carriages in New York City.

A model of the faux-vintage electric car that horse advocates say could replace carriage horses in New York, with Ed Sayres, left, and Steve Nislick of NY-Class, the group that sponsors the cars.

The City Council passed new regulations last year to make the horse carriage industry more humane, but some lawmakers are now arguing that not enough is being done and that the business should be shut down altogether. NY1’s Courtney Gross filed the following report.

Several weeks after a taxi crashed into a Central Park horse carriage, injuring both the carriage driver and the tourists inside, advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall Wednesday to demand the city ban the industry.