Nobody: Mayor Eric Adams: The rats may be listening
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Two months ago, in front of a garbage truck parked in front of City Hall, New York City Mayor Eric Adams laid out the three major planks of his plan to make the five boroughs a “livable city.”The mayor’s longtime obsession with rats has been a part of a policy platform that appears, in part, designed to appeal to quality-of-life issues that resonate with everyday New Yorkers.
His war on rodents has become a major talking point since taking office this year — at least judging by his public rhetoric, especially in recent months. Since mid-October alone, Adams has said the word “rat” or “rats” at least 80 times in his public press conferences and interviews, according to transcripts of his events regularly provided by his press office.
The new laws will also require the city to name “rat-mitigation zones” by April 1 — particular trouble spots where the city will crack down on rodents — and report on their effectiveness each year. The measures also will allow the city to require buildings that are cited at least twice for rodents to use secure containers for their trash for a period of two years.
For years, Adams has publicly espoused his fear of rats and his desire to eradicate them from the streets of New York. On top of announcing a job opening this month for a so-called “rat czar,” Adams mounted his own personal fight against rodents by claiming to spend $7,000 for rat mitigation at a Brooklyn brownstone he owns.
Perhaps the most notable example came in 2019, when Adams, then the Brooklyn borough president, held a news conference to tout a type of trap that drowned rodents in an alcohol solution, leaving behind what, at the time,Adams’ vermin vendetta comes as rodent sightings are becoming more frequent in New York City. Rodent-related complaints have risen considerably in recent years, with data from the city’s 311 system showing more than 39,000 in 2022 through Dec.
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