Dear Mayor Mamdani: Patrick Nolan's Reign of Terror Must End

A cesspool of corruption and waste, ACC is the antithesis of the NYC Mamdani claims to envision. Longtime board chair Nolan embodies the rot.

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

Ossified NYC ACC board chair Patrick Nolan, displaying his little-known facility with modern computing equipment, and 10 more living, breathing, adoptable companion animals poisoned until dead and burnt to cinders, this week, on his watch. Nolan video still: NYCHealth/YouTube

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It’s January 24, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week, a dark cloud lingered over NYC DOH land.

Not the ash cloud bearing the cremains of tens of thousands of past and future family pets happily destroyed by Chief Extermination Officer Risa Weinstock and her even-lesser DOH dunderlings at NYC ACC. Au contraire, mindless deadly violence visited upon the city’s most vulnerable is the very air they breathe over at the …