Mamdani’s NYC DOH ACC Starts '26 With Medical Torture Killing

Meanwhile, a lawmaker who could stop cat and dog culling statewide, but won't, will waste space in Albany for another year.

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.

Clockwise from top left: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, New York Assembly Member Donna Lupardo, New York Senator Michelle Hinchey, and NYC DOH Acting Commissioner Michelle Morse. Photo illustration: The Scoop New York

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It’s January 10, 2026. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week, New York Assembly Member Donna Lupardo announced she will not run for another term this year.

As regular TSNY readers know, Lupardo chairs the Assembly agriculture committee, which along with the Senate ag committee determines the fate of almost every companion animal-related bill in Albany. A Democrat based in Binghamton, Lupardo is known to New Yorkers as perhaps the single biggest obstacle to animal-friendly legislation i…