Police open animal cruelty investigation

The NYPD has opened an animal cruelty investigation into the abandonment and possible poisoning of dozens of cats inside a Ridgewood apartment building being renovated.According to published reports citing an NYPD spokesperson, police are looking into whether any criminality occurred during the construction work and, specifically, the alleged use of chemicals like Clorox at the site.

The NYPD did not respond to a Chronicle request for comment by press time.

When renovation work at 778 Onderdonk Ave. began in late July, area residents began to notice a strong smell of cat urine coming from the building, along with an increase in the number of cats in the area.

When a handful of concerned citizens peeked into the structure, they discovered a gutted interior and dozens of starving cats, many of them suffering from a wide array of serious physical injuries, in addition to a number of dead ones.

During their rescue operation two weeks ago, multiple people posted pictures on Facebook of empty bleach and ammonia bottles strewn around the site, and one person told the Chronicle it appears either the building’s owner or the workers doing the demolition work — without city permits — tried to poison the felines.

However, a managing partner of the building’s ownership group — who declined to be named — told the paper on Aug. 2 that the construction company hired to do the renovation work brought in a second company to take care of the cats.

That entity did so, he said, by pouring Clorox on the floor and hoping they would run into traps placed at the building’s exits.

According to three volunteers involved in the rescue, a former resident of the building owned between 30 and 40 cats that were not spayed or neutered.

When she moved out earlier this year, she took some of the felines with her but left most of them behind.

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