What Is Justin Brannan Hiding About His Failure to Establish a NYC Animal Welfare Department?

The comptroller hopeful's much-hyped 2019 bid to remove NYC ACC oversight from the city health department only made things worse for animals and advocates. Rather than explain, Brannan is obfuscating.

The Scoop New York is a newsletter dedicated to covering the movement for a true no-kill New York State, 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.

The Scoop New York FOILed for records to divine how Justin Brannan’s proposed NYC animal welfare department was scuttled. We got back hundreds of pages of extraneous noise. All else was redacted.

Headlines from Buffalo to Brooklyn

It’s February 7, 2025. This is The Weekly Poop.

This week, New York City Council Member Justin Brannan’s bid for city comptroller got some love from a couple of unions and a crony.

Termed out as a Brooklyn council rep, Brannan is running for the Democratic comptroller nomination against current Manhattan borough president and former City Council member Mark Levine, as current comptroller and former City Council member Brad Lander vies for mayor. None of these fellows want to b…