The New York City Zoo is a location in New York City which appears in the Tales of the TMNT.
History[]
After Michelangelo learns that Rod's father is bankrolling Bishop Robotics and Josefina Bishop, he asks that Rod call his dad to stop Bishop. Rod agrees, but only if Mikey helps him become a mutant. Mike thinks this is a horrible idea and refuses, as he doesn't even know what mutagen would do to a human. Rod offers to throw in $1,000,000 and Mike suddenly agrees. Rod takes a selfie of himself and Mike and uploads it to a photo-sharing service. This of course alerts Mechazoid 03 to their location.
Rod and Mike head to the New York City Zoo, where they prepare to figure out a way to mutate Rod. The man doesn't understand why they can't just enter, but Mikey explains that it's after hours and they can't simply walk in to borrow some veterinary supplies. Mikey hops the gate to the zoo and enters, and Rod attempts to climb up the gate and fails. Mike facepalms, but then sees a fuse box nearby and gets an idea.
At the bear exhibit, one of the night security men teases a bear with a candy bar, and his partner says that the zoo keepers were pretty strict against that. The first one is swiped at through the bars by the bear, who misses, and he laughs it off. The lights suddenly go off and Dale wonders if the bear did it, and his partner mocks him. They go off to find the culprit. All of the cages in the zoo open up, and Rod walks through the gate to find that Mike has shoved his nunchaku into the fuse box.
A number of misadventures occur as the pair makes their way into the veterinary clinic. As Mikey attempts to trick Rod into thinking he's being injected with mutant blood, they are interrupted by night security and then again by Mechazoid 03. Though Rod doesn't get to become a mutant, the blood Mikey drew from himself does mutate a pigeon, who becomes Pete.