Posted on 04/13/2023 12:55:02 PM PDT by Magnatron
The search for New York City’s first-ever “rat czar” has come to an end.
Kathleen Corradi has been hired as the city’s director of rodent mitigation, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.
Corradi will coordinate city agencies such as the Departments of Health and Mental Hygiene, Parks and Recreation, and Sanitation and find “innovative ways to cut off rats’ food sources” and use “new technologies to detect and exterminate rat populations,” Adams’ office said in a news release Wednesday. She will earn a salary of $155,000 a year, he said at a news conference with reporters.
The city also announced the creation of a “Harlem Rat Exclusion Zone” that covers much of the northern half of Manhattan, where $3.5 million will be spent to improve and increase inspections, use equipment such as bait and traps, and harden floors at some public housing to prevent rat burrowing.
“Rat mitigation is more than a quality-of-life issue for New Yorkers,” Corradi, who previously served as the Queens director of space planning for the city’s Department of Education, said in the announcement. “Rats are a symptom of systemic issues, including sanitation, health, housing, and economic justice. As the first director of rodent mitigation, I’m excited to bring a science- and systems-based approach to fight rats. New York may be famous for the Pizza Rat, but rats, and the conditions that help them thrive will no longer be tolerated – no more dirty curbs, unmanaged spaces, or brazen burrowing.”
As Adams put it: “The rats are going to hate Kathy, but we’re excited to have her leading this important effort.”
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I thought that was what New York City Mayors were...
cRat czar. Fixed it.
Ought toget a pack of terriers. They would make short work of them.
I would have guessed “Ben Rodent”
They don’t need an elephant czar. There isn’t any Republicans in New Yawk City.
The jokes write themselves.
Cities have had “rat sluggers” for years.
After all, was that not the service provided by the Pied Piper of Hamelin?
There’s just so many ways to go with this, I don’t know where to start...
“Pervert factory”
I love it!
The RAT King...just like Xao Bi-Dung.
There is a product made by Farnham I get at ranch supply:
JUST ONE BITE===
1 pound bar the color of butterschotch.
I put it into double or triple Ziplock freezer bags, place on concrete surface & hit with hammer to break up into smaller pieces.
I scatter where pets cannot get-—behind appliances, etc.
Kills mice-—gophers-—even Norway Tree Rats that got between my house & hay stack years ago. THOSE buggers are the size of small cats.
Scatter by hand-—wash hands well after-—
Have used it for over 28 years——Costs me about $9 a brick.
New York declared war on rats. Half the troops defected to the rats and the other half brought back war brides.
Cockroaches are a big problem in Manhattan as well. I’m on the 16th floor of my building and they are the size of people’s index fingers. Many exterminators come and go but they always come back!
On a quick read, I didn’t see that she had any special qualifications for the position. Did I miss something?
New York is getting rid of democrats, who’d a thought.
Will she be cleaning out City Hall?
How do you collect the dead ones— by eventual smell. Cause of course they get in hard to reach places and die. Might not be a big thing if outside the barn, etc.
Used to use warfarin (rat poison) which severely dehydrates the rats that eat it— they get real thirsty and went into the boathouse on the lake to drink up- gorged themselves on water— and they blew up their heart and lungs to die. Usually they floated away on/in the water. Disgusting but fish ate them with no ill effect.
In Louisiana those are the babies.
Rat Czar? OK, thinking out loud...Why not offer a rat bounty. 5 dollars a rat or something like that. Lots of homeless in NYC could benefit and the city could get rid of rats. Kill two “birds” with one stone.
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