{"id":92432,"date":"2025-07-25T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92432\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:50:09","slug":"trouble-packed-nyc-animal-shelters-land-another-1m-in-taxpayer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/92432\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble-packed NYC animal shelters land another $1M in taxpayer funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city is dumping another $1 million into its troubled jam-packed animal-shelter system to hire and train 14 new staffers, City Hall said Friday.<\/p>\n

The Animal Care Centers of New York City \u2014 a nonprofit with a $1.4 billion contract to run the Big Apple\u2019s animal-shelter system for 34 years \u2014 recently announced<\/a> it was suspending its intake of dogs and cats because of \u201ccritical\u201d overcrowding.<\/p>\n

The move came days after a Post expose<\/a> revealed ongoing sickening conditions at ACC\u2019s new $75 million city-funded shelter in Queens.<\/p>\n

Anna Garguilo, an adoptions counselor with Charmy, 4, an Akita mix. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

\u201cACC\u2019s work to ensure no animal is left behind is essential to protecting animals across New York City, and our administration is proud to invest $1 million in additional funding to support the work ACC does and boost their capacity to better care for animals,\u201d Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also urge New Yorkers looking for a pet addition to their families to adopt, so we can ensure that every animal can find a loving home.\u201d<\/p>\n

But GOP mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa slammed the funding announcement as a piecemeal solution to the larger problem of animal welfare in Gotham.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city has completely ignored animal welfare,\u201d Sliwa wrote on X. \u201cToday\u2019s $1M for ACC is a drop in the bucket. ACC has a 34-year contract worth over $1B\u2014and yet our shelters are overcrowded, surrenders are paused, and animals are suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa holds a campaign event outside of an Animal Care Center on 110th street in East Harlem in Manhattan. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

\u201cACC has a 34-year contract worth over $1B\u2014and yet our shelters are overcrowded, surrenders are paused, and animals are suffering,\u201d Sliwa said. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

The red-beret-wearing Republican, who shares an apartment with six rescue cats, earlier this week<\/a> called for the city to end its contract with ACC and replace it with a city-run overhaul that would include a \u201cquasi-private public partnership\u201d to shift the cost away from taxpayers.<\/p>\n

A new animal welfare agency would be created in the \u201cbasement\u201d of City Hall and all shelters would be kill-free and offer free spay and neuter programs under a Sliwa administration.<\/p>\n

The ACC has three active sites across the five boroughs with more than 1,000 animals in its care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks at a press conference to announce that 200 rescues have been made through the NYPD\u2019s drone and enforcement operations targeting subway surfing on July 21, 2025 in New York City. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n

A new animal welfare agency would be created in the \u201cbasement\u201d of City Hall and all shelters would be kill-free and offer free spay and neuter programs under a Sliwa administration. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n

While the ACC is mandated to have a location in each of the five boroughs, the Brooklyn location is currently closed till 2026 for renovations, and the Bronx resource center has been \u201ctemporarily\u201d closed since May.<\/p>\n

Another $92 million facility in The Bronx is still under construction even though it was slated to open in the spring.<\/p>\n

The ACC did not respond to a Post request for comment.<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 campaign did not respond to a request for comment, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city is dumping another $1 million into its troubled jam-packed animal-shelter system to hire and train 14…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,21202,3425,5340,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,7926,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-92432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animal-shelters","10":"tag-animals","11":"tag-curtis-sliwa","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-pets","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114916086567540905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}