Based exclusively on this particular visit, I have...

Based exclusively on this particular visit, I have to blast the zoo and its managing agency, The Wildlife Conservation Society. I visited just before New Year's Day, an admittedly very cold off day in otherwise always bustling New York. I did not expect to see the lions and giraffes walking around or the zebras grazing, but these people opened up the place, charged full admission and pretty much had nothing happening. They charged extra admission to their Congo exhibit and when we got to the indoor gorilla exhibit -- well, the zoo keepers decided they couldn't be bothered even notifying the attendant in the admissions booth of the Congo Exhibit. There was a lone Komodo Dragon that looked about as bored as we did, reptilian admissions seemed to be the order of the day.