The Scoop New York is a website and newsletter covering the movement for a true no-kill New York, 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.
The Scoop New York is the only news outlet to consider newsworthy taxpayer-funded cruelty toward homeless companion animals, as well as decades of officials’ deliberate abuse — psychological, physical and financial — of the New Yorkers who care about them.
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Welp. Y’all went and done it.
Readership for back-to-back days of NYC DOH ACC kill-pound coverage propelled The Scoop New York to number 25 on the list of top Substack news sites, a first since we published our inaugural story in March 2024.
We also saw a mini-surge of paid subscriptions after our special video report on the latest horrors — including those of questionable legality — being inflicted upon helpless cats and dogs at the hands of one of the most merciless and prolific kill pounds in the nation.
As you know, our coverage doesn’t stop there. The Scoop New York holds to account city and state officials, appointed and elected, who refuse to intervene, allowing ACC to abuse, torture and kill at will and with impunity.
It’s working.
Though Zohran Mamdani has stonewalled TSNY since he announced his run for mayor, after we reported five consecutive months of increased ACC killings on his watch, the Mamdani administration took the unprecedented step of manipulating kill data reports. Since the June report, Mamdani has erased silent kills — animals ACC exterminates without offering for foster or adoption, contrary to the agency’s contract with New Yorkers and a practice that would be unheard of in any reputable shelter — from the public record.
This is bald-faced corruption. It demonstrates how far NYC officials will go to maintain an ACC status quo that in 2025 resulted in one homeless cat or dog extermination every three hours, despite the fact that ACC is funded with hundreds of millions of dollars of the public’s money and has the largest pool of potential adopters in the country.
As reported by The Scoop New York, the Mamdani administration and the City Council, led by Speaker Julie Menin, have continued their predecessors’ practice of jointly filing falsified public data reports by zeroing out the number of healthy animals ACC kills each year — in contravention of city law that requires the administration to report such data — with an absurd ham-fisted gambit to alter the definition of “healthy” to suit ACC’s everyday practice of arbitrarily exterminating healthy and adoptable cats and dogs.
Apparently, to the Mamdani administration, this brazen violation of city code — and the public trust — isn’t enough.
Mamdani doesn’t want New Yorkers to know how much ACC’s already-unacceptable performance has degraded since he assumed office. This should be a wake-up call for every New Yorker who worries over vulnerable cats and dogs in ACC custody. We don’t know what his administration — or his rogue kill pound — will do next, but we do know The Scoop New York will be ready to expose it. That is, as long as we have your help.
Paid subscriptions and reader donations are TSNY’s only source of funding. You’ve heard of operating on a shoestring budget. Here at TSNY HQ, we dream of someday having shoestrings of our very own. Yet The Scoop New York is at this writing one of the most-read news outlets on Substack.
We punch above our weight. That doesn’t change the fact that producing independent journalism requires resources.
As far as administrative expenses are concerned — domain maintenance, business software subscriptions, social media management fees, non-profit legal compliance, accounting, plus some marketing and advertising, etc. — the site pretty much pays for itself. The human labor required to produce our reporting, however, continues to be all but volunteered.
We are in dire need of funds to pay writers (and founding editors) to maintain and expand our kill-pound corruption coverage. We need the resources to retain legal counsel to compel ACC, City Hall and the City Council to release public documents now hidden behind reflexive freedom of information denials and dictatorial data censorship.
We’re having an impact. Our tiny publication has the attention of decision-makers in charge of the nation’s largest, coolest city. If, like us, you don’t want to lose that — if, like us, you can’t imagine going back to the days when ACC could abuse and kill safe in the knowledge that no news outlet would notice, much less care — please believe me when I tell you that without your help, those days may well return at any time.
We are still processing what it means to be cited, even fleetingly, among Substack’s leading news publications, in the company of such big-timers as Katie Couric and the Daily Beast. We are indescribably grateful for our paid sub mini-surge. Your paid subscription or donation will help us sustain the momentum we need to keep fighting, every day, for the vulnerable cats and dogs who are right now suffering and dying at NYC ACC.
If you appreciate the work TSNY does, and you can afford it, please seriously consider contributing. Subscriptions start at just $5 a month. Through fall, annual subscription tiers are 20 percent off. Paid subscriptions and donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.
ACC victims can’t count on self-interested politicians for help. The city press corps is indifferent to, if not complicit in, their plight. Your paid subscription or donation of any amount will help The Scoop New York continue to raise hell on their behalf.
I know y’all can do it.
Thanks for everything.
