NYC is facing its rattiest summer ever — but the man who Eric Adams once claimed could solve the rodent problem is still waiting on the mayor's call. “Maybe he puts a big light in the sky with a rat and I put my cape on and I run to City Hall,' he said.
Exterminators and rat experts warn the city's rat problem is only going to worsenIn late summer of 2019, Eric Adams was standing over a pile of oily rat corpses, outlining his plan to flush the city of its vermin problem.
Nearly three years later, the city is drowning in rat complaints – and the man whose rodent-killing machine Adams touted on the campaign trail as“He has a lot on his plate, I believe in time, God-willing, he’ll get around to it,” Pat Marino, who leases the boxes through Rat Trap Distribution, recently told Gothamist. “Maybe he puts a big light in the sky with a rat and I put my cape on and I run to City Hall.
Meanwhile, more than two years after pest control inspections were halted in the early days of the pandemic, the city’s Health Department still hasn’t ramped back up to full strength. During the first four months of this year, the agency conducted 20% fewer inspections than during the same period in 2019, according to data shared with Gothamist.
“Every rat in New York City hates my guts,” Marino boasted, then offered a more humble assessment of his progress. “We're having an impact, we're catching a lot of rats. But there are millions out there. I don’t want to be alarmist. But there are a lot.”
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