Pizza Roll, 1, Exterminated at ACC's Brand New Queens "Shelter"

Hours after opening, ACC Queens began filling trash bags.

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 August 9, 2024. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week, we learned that Pizza Roll was already dead.

Hours after NYC ACC opened its new location in Ridgewood, Queens, the killings began. In fact, by the time I published last Friday’s column on the grand opening — “[H]ow long before the shine wears off and the Queens location becomes another ACC death house?” — Pizza Roll, a year-old puppy found on the street, was in a trash bag bound for Long Island.

Here’s what a volunteer said of Pizza Roll before …