Mayor Eric Adams claimed Tuesday that town’s legions of rats are “actually working scared’’ due to his efforts to thwart them — whereas a Metropolis Corridor poster bizarrely touted him because the bald-headed “Mr. Clear.’’
Hizzonner introduced at a press convention that town’s Division of Sanitation collected 15 million kilos of rubbish from highways and medians since 2023 and has decreased rat sightings each month up to now this 12 months.
“It’s rubbish to say we will’t have a cleaner metropolis,” the mayor quipped — close to a poster board that includes him because the well-known brand for the cleansing product.
The Sanitation Division launched a specialised freeway unit in April 2023 aiming to take away litter and particles from town’s 1,100 miles of roadway shoulders and medians as a part of its struggle in opposition to rats.
“For many years, cleansing freeway shoulders was one thing that nobody would put their fingers on or point out actual accountability,” Adams stated outdoors a Sanit storage within the Decrease East Aspect of Manhattan — with two mammoth-sized freeway rubbish vehicles behind him.
“I actually wish to encourage New Yorkers, ‘Please don’t discard your trash as your on the highways — it accumulates and creates an setting we don’t need our metropolis to have,’ ” he stated.
Rat sightings within the Large Apple have plummeted 16.4% 12 months up to now, in line with 311 knowledge.
Adams attributed the drop to a mixture of the work of his Rat Czar, Bridget Corradi, and town’s rollout of containerized trash bins, which will likely be necessary at most metropolis residences by June 2026.
To date, 880,000 of the rat-protected bins have been ordered by residents and companies.
“We closed the curbside buffet for these filthy critters, and the information exhibits rat sightings reported to 311 have declined for EIGHT STRAIGHT MONTHS,” Adams shared in a publish to X.
“They’re actually working scared!” he stated.
