Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday named former elementary school teacher Kathleen Corradi as the Big Apple's first-ever director of rodent mitigation.
introduced a former elementary school teacher and anti-rat activist as his new"rat czar" on Wednesday. Officially, Kathleen Corradi, the mayor's new hire, will be known as the director of rodent mitigation.
"Rats are smart, they are resilient," said Adams, a Democrat."Many of us live in communities where rats think they run the city." New York City's approach is in contrast to some efforts by animal-rights advocates in Paris, where there could be more rats than its 2.2 million people, perhaps twice as many, according to some estimates. A strike by garbage workers left some streets teeming with rats.
"There were people that were yelling, you know, ’Oh you murderer. You murderer!'" the mayor said."You know, we can’t be philosophical about things that impact the quality of life of New Yorkers."— something he mentioned in jest Wednesday. "The fewer rats the better," said Nina Daugherty, a Harlem resident who came upon the news conference while jogging through a local park.
Corradi said her job will be to combat rats by taking away their food sources — often garbage and food scraps.
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