10 Ignored Questions for the NYC Office of Animal Welfare

MOAW Director Alexandra Silver worked in the NYC ACC communications office for a decade. It shows.

The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to covering the movement for a true no-kill New York State, from Buffalo to Brooklyn. NYC ACC KILLS, published by TSNY, enumerates and memorializes adoptable cats and dogs who were nonetheless exterminated by Animal Care Centers of New York City.

Though MOAW was conceived in 2019, its website appears unfinished, and the agency has no social media presence to speak of.

Headlines from Buffalo to Brooklyn

It’s March 8, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop, Belated Edition.

This week, The Scoop New York sent some shoulda-been innocuous questions to Alexandra Silver, who since 2022 has worked as director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare.

Four days and one follow-up email later, we received no response.

In case you missed it, in 2019 then-mayor Bill de Blasio, in concert with City Council Member Justin Brannan, pulled a bait and switch on New Yorkers by quietly nixing a proposed city department of animal welfare in favor of an office of …