A Sampling of Ignored Queries to NYC ACC and DOHMH Spox Folk Katy Hansen and Shari Logan
If you're a reporter uninterested in talking points, ACC and its DOH overseers aren't interested in your questions.
The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to companion animals and the New Yorkers who care for them, 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.

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It’s January 24, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, we’re taking inventory of unanswered questions posed by The Scoop New York to Katy Hansen, whose job title IDs her as the media contact for the contractor currently known as Animal Care Centers of New York City.
Like all taxpayer-dependent flacks, Hansen IRL is less a spokesperson than front-line gatekeeper assigned to release sanitized propaganda to the public and the press, while ensuring her higher-ups aren’t themselves faced with questions they may find uncomfortable, including “Why are animals at your brand new facility living in feces?,” and suchlike.
At the far end of Hansen’s chain is the mayor, whatever absentee asshat that may be at any given time. A couple or three links up from Hansen is the spokesperson for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, who as of this writing happens to be Shari Logan. On paper DOH oversees ACC, but in practice its role, as far as ACC goes, is mostly to provide another protective layer of bodies between the city kill pound and City Hall (the City Council, too, for that matter).

If you’re an access journalist, Hansen, Logan and their ilk will talk your ear off. Start asking real questions with the expectation of receiving real answers and they shut down faster than ACC ahead of a mass culling.

Since Hansen ignores most TSNY queries, I will often CC Logan. That doesn’t help much, if at all, in generating replies (I have never heard back from Logan or her DOH colleagues directly), but it does establish (a) that DOH is well aware of ACC’s penchant for sadism, demonstrated not only by its everyday cruelty to animals but also its continuous abuse of New Yorkers who can only watch as those animals suffer and die — thousands and thousands of them, every year — and (b) that DOH is totes on board with (a).

Don’t misunderstand: Hansen and Logan answer to their bosses — Risa Weinstock and Michelle Morse, respectively. They are in a sense just following orders. But a fish that rots from the head is no less rotten.
Here’s the latest New York companion animal news:
You can love companion animals or you can love watching their adoptive families get terrorized by lunatics, but not both.
Eric Adams: The 110th mayor of New York City and one groveling, sniveling coward.
Volunteers are scrambling to save “more than a dozen” cats from being dumped on the street by a Bronx “man,” since animal cruelty is basically legal in New York and The Greatest City in the World™ does not have a functioning animal shelter.
An unnamed, un-chipped dog abandoned in Tompkins Square Park has been matched with a new adoptive household.
The former director of the company contracted to run Rockland County animal control was excused from a lawsuit filed by the county over alleged “shelter” mismanagement.
The brand new animal control facility in Greece, a suburb of Rochester, “will not offer public visitation hours.”
New Yorkers are volunteering and collecting supplies to help companion animals and caretakers affected by California wildfires.
See rescues Nessa Rose and Charlie (with bipeds Julianna Marguiles and Peter Gallagher) in the Broadway production “Left on Tenth,” now at the James Earl Jones (née Cort) Theater.
Vulture capitalist shit-heels are killing cats and dogs by driving up the cost of veterinary care, along with everything else.
If you’re reading The Scoop New York you probably don’t need to be told that extreme cold is dangerous for pets of all kinds.
Finally: “As long as there is a demand for purebred animals, breeders will continue to churn them out.”
Adoptables
It’s another weekend with just one NYC ACC mobile adoption event, tomorrow in Queens. As reported up top, TSNY queried ACC about mobile adoption cutbacks — set to stretch into March, at least — questions ACC and NYC health department flacks ignored.
Looking to adopt a horse or pig? Venus and Gilbert await at Lollypop Farm in Rochester.
Six-year-old Twinkle, pictured above, and friends are now available at Chautauqua County Humane Society in Jamestown.
Violet, also above, has spent the equivalent of three years in a kennel. Meet her at North Fork Animal League.
While we’re checking Long Island, Wally and Dino, both terrier mixes, have also languished for years without homes and are waiting for you at the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh.
Find New York adoptables near you on Dogs in Danger and Adopt a Pet.
Food recalls
The FDA announced no new pet food recalls this week. Check here for FDA info on prior recalls.