NYC ACC in Queens Is Still NYC ACC
Improvements to animal living conditions at ACC are welcome and long overdue. But they won't stop the killings.
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.
Headlines from Buffalo to Brooklyn
It’s August 2, 2024. This is The Weekly Poop.
This week, the entity currently known as Animal Care Centers of New York City opened its first location in Queens. Maybe you heard.
I did not read all the media coverage of the big reveal. What I saw, though, were the usual ACC talking points, transcribed — per usual — by well-meaning but uncritical journalists. Over and over.
I won’t go into the talking points again, save one: the claim that ACC’s problems are in part caused by New Yor…
