In January, during the board meeting of Animal Care and Control, it was announced that the Bronx would be getting a full-service animal shelter, something it currently lacks. In addition, the ACC intake center in Rego Park will be moving to a larger space in an undisclosed location in Middle Village. The ACC is still looking for a site to build a full-service animal shelter in Queens. Intake centers receive animals but do not adopt them out. Animals surrendered in Queens are transported to either Manhattan or Brooklyn for treatment and eventual adoption. Funding for the building of both of the proposed full-service shelters was allocated by Mayor de Blasio in 2016.
Originally published in the March 2018 Juniper Berry Magazine
Berry Bits: ACC intake center moving to Middle Village
Christina Wilkinson
March 2018 Table of Contents
- Yesterday & Today: Grand Avenue at Flushing Avenue, looking east, 1945
- Let it snow!
- Berry Bits: Illegal truck parking halted
- Berry Bits: DHS says Glendale shelter is no longer in the works
- Berry Bits: Maspeth HS graduate fighting cancer
- Berry Bits: Middle Village woman wins the lottery
- Berry Bits: Glendale Kiwanis gifts Sacred Heart pantry with new refrigerator
- Berry Bits: JPCA has new president
- Berry Bits: Georgia Diner to be demolished
- Berry Bits: Recent reports about freight rail operations raise concerns
- Berry Bits: Happy Retirement!
- Berry Bits: 80th Street fix is 2 years away
- Berry Bits: Don't block the box!
- Berry Bits: Free legal clinic coming to Middle Village
- A message from the president
- The Queensboro Bridge Railway: Last Trolley Standing
- Short Story: Seeing the Light
- Hope Hornets are diocesan champs
- Things That Are Dumb: The Woodhaven Blvd ticket trap
- Things That Are Dumb: Brace yourself for a deluge of dumping
- Things That Are Dumb: Sign switch by summer
- Things That Are Dumb: A fool and his money are soon parted
- Berry Bits: Hit-and-run alert system coming
- Things That Are Dumb: Never-beginning bridge project now a never-ending one
- Things That Are Dumb: Light rail plan dead on arrival
- Things That Are Dumb: Maspeth's trashy triangle
- Things That Are Dumb: Flushing Avenue underpass a Vision Zero nightmare
- Things That Are Dumb: Strange traffic light location
- Letters to the editor, March 2018
- St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop #119
- How mutual funds can positively affect your life
- Zone Pricing (AKA all-at-once unsustainable, unfair, inequitable & regressive toll-tax scheme that also fails to ease congestion)
- Our Lady of Hope welcomes Rev. Noel Daduya
- Amazing Stories: Hollywood to Make Film of Ex-GI's Tune
- The New York City Feral Cat Initiative
- From Kaiser's Farm to Ridgewood Terrace
- Berry Bits: LIE diamond grinding delayed
- Berry Bits: ACC intake center moving to Middle Village
- Things That Are Dumb: DOE issues refunds that amount to pennies
- Things That Are Dumb: Elmhurst couple faces 7 years in prison for illegal conversion
- Things That Are Dumb: DOT thinks Woodhaven Blvd traffic not affected by new design
- Things That Are Dumb: Rikers closure plan announced
- Things That Are Dumb: Postal service drops the ball
- Op-Ed: The Parkland Shooting Needs to Be a Bellwether for Change
- The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House
- The true meaning of Maspeth's ancient name
- Why Rikers Island must remain open
- Berry Scenes: March 2018
- Short Story: Change Happens
- Our legislative priorities in Albany
- Killy's Korner, March 2018
- Community Spotlight: Phyllis Taiano
- Grandma's Easter Meat Pie
- Neighborhood Hall of Shame March 2018
- 104th Precinct Report, March 2018
- The life of John Metzner
- Op-Ed: The United States Constitution vs. Bill de Blasio
The Juniper Berry magazine, first published in 1938 is an all-volunteer effort containing articles on crime prevention, neighborhood issues, meeting reports and notices, neighborhood history and photographs, guest articles, editorials and more.
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