New York's Newest Non-Profit Newsroom
The Scoop New York is the sole news outlet dedicated to companion animals and the New Yorkers who care for them, along with politicians doing their damnedest to avoid the subject altogether.
This week, subscribers to The Scoop New York get a preview of next week’s press announcement officializing TSNY’s reincorporation as a non-profit.
This would not be happening without you.
Thank you.
Next week we will resume our regular publishing schedule, and then some.
See you on the other side.
— BA
New York’s Newest Non-Profit Newsroom
One year after debuting as the sole news outlet dedicated to companion animals and the New Yorkers who care for them — along with the New York politicians doing their damnedest to avoid the subject altogether — The Scoop New York has reincorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit.
Since March 2024, The Scoop New York has exposed malfeasance and corruption at Animal Care Centers of New York City, a quasi-independent entity with a $1.4 billion no-bid city contract.
Established in the 1990s, NYC ACC was from its inception granted carte blanche by City Hall and the City Council to abuse and kill cats, dogs and other companion animals en masse — often in apparent violation of state cruelty laws — while plowing through heaps of taxpayer cash, with the blessing of city and state pols who don’t want ACC’s laundry aired in public.
The Scoop New York has reported how ACC’s dereliction of duty takes a financial and emotional toll on New Yorkers who do the work ACC is paid for, like caring for neighborhood stray and abandoned cat colonies. And TSNY is the only news outlet to cover how two career pols who are currently competing to be the city’s next comptroller played key roles in locking down ACC’s unprecedented 34-year deal, and now refuse to address New Yorkers’ questions on how it came to be.
TSNY is the only publication to chart and analyze ACC intake and outcome data, debunking claims that New Yorkers are straining the system with a post-pandemic crush of surrendered cats and dogs, a contention undercut by ACC’s own data but nonetheless recited ad nauseam by electeds.
TSNY coverage of companion animal issues is not restricted to the boroughs. Over the past year TSNY has reported how New York “shelters” that kill adoptable cats and dogs are also Albany gatekeepers, with a trade group and political action committee that in effect choose which animal-centric bills clear the state legislature. Against this backdrop, TSNY revealed how two influential state lawmakers continue to impede legislation to require shelters to offer animals to rescues as an alternative to killing.
The Scoop New York, and only The Scoop New York, trailed shelter lobbyists and personnel on lobby day 2024 as they met with Governor Kathy Hochul in the capitol Red Room. TSNY trekked to suburban Buffalo to write up New York’s then-newest sanctuary for senior dogs. TSNY’s most popular story in its inaugural year centered on companion animal advocates in Rochester who, as the 2025 mayor’s race heats up, are in no uncertain terms demanding a shake-up at that city’s long-neglected municipal shelter.
“I’ve been a reporter for a long time,” said TSNY Editor and Publisher Brad Aaron, out loud to no one in particular, “but a year in, I’m still new to the companion animal beat, which is as complex as any I’ve covered.
“I owe a huge ‘Thank you’ to advocates and other sources who have been extremely patient as I learn the ins and outs,” Aaron continued.
“I should also thank the politicians and staffers whose ceaseless efforts at obfuscation get me out of bed in the morning. Truly, without them my job would be unnecessary.”
About Brad Aaron
The Scoop New York Editor and Publisher Brad Aaron is an award-winning reporter with more than 20 years on the job. His byline has appeared in publications from New York City to Baltimore to Miami. His reporting has been cited by the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Politico New York, The Atlantic, Business Insider and many more.
Brad spent 14 years as an editor and reporter in New York City, covering politics, urban planning, transportation and the criminal justice system.