NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Mayor Eric Adams was fined $300 on Tuesday for the rat infestation at his Bedford-Stuyvesant rental property.
City inspectors found the method of storing recyclables at the property encouraged “the nesting of rats.”
A photo provided by Adams to the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings showed recyclables stored in plastic bags, when they should have been held in rodent-proof bins.
A second summons for rat burrows and droppings at the townhouse he rents out was dismissed after he testified he spent $7,000 on rodent removal.
Adams has made the curbing of the city’s rodent population a policy priority of his administration. In December, the city announced it would hire a Director of Rodent Migration, dubbed “Rat Czar.”
Adams also pushed the deadline for putting garbage on the curb from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. to limit the time any furry menaces have to root around.
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