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Queens, The Bronx Get Funding for New Animal Shelters in City Budget

By Kathleen Culliton | April 26, 2016 5:20pm
 The new Queens and Bronx animal shelters will provide full adoption services.
The new Queens and Bronx animal shelters will provide full adoption services.
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Animal Care Centers of NYC

QUEENS — Queens and The Bronx will get new animal shelters thanks to a $10 million investment from the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced, with the release of the 2017 fiscal year Executive Budget on Tuesday.

The $82.2 billion budget allocates $2 million toward designing those two adoption centers and $8 million toward purchasing the land.

The location and opening dates of the shelters will be determined by the purchasing decision in 2018, according to a City Hall spokesman.

These will be the first city-sponsored animal adoption centers in Queens and The Bronx, according to city officials. There are just three full-service, city-sponsored animal shelters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island that provide medical treatment and adoption services for almost 35,000 animals.

The Animal Care Centers in Queens and The Bronx are only able to receive animals and do not provide adoptions.

The new facilities will provide full-services in those two boroughs whose shelters currently house a combined total of approximately 6,000 dogs and 10,000 cats, according to Animal Care Center of NYC statistics.

These shelters also will offer direct adoption because we know how much New Yorkers love their pets, especially those in need of a home, said de Blasio in a statement.

President of the Alliance for NYC’s Animals president Jane Hoffman called the announcement "a great first step in the effort to provide the residents and animals of the Bronx and Queens with access to adoptions’ lost and found and other services and resources which can only be provided by full-service shelters."