The City Council has voted to put $500,000 toward affordable spay and neuter services for cats, a move officials say will ease pressure on overcrowded animal shelters and help low-income New Yorkers care for their pets.

The funding will cover about 3,500 surgeries through Flatbush Cats, a Brooklyn nonprofit that works with rescuers and volunteers.

“I’ve long believed that you can judge a city by how we treat our animals, and we need to make the greatest city in the world a more humane place,” City Council Finance Chair Justin Brannan, who pushed for the initiative, said on “Mornings On 1.”

Flatbush Cats executive director Will Zweigart said the funding is urgently needed.

“New York City has a huge crisis with over half a million cats outside, and our shelters are overcrowded,” he said.

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