Mayor Eric Adams' rat-busters are headed to eight New York City areas identified as popular rat hangout spots, including parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Adams in November, 2022 ramped up the city's war on rats with four pieces of legislation to reduce rat residency across the city, including direction to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to identify targeted rat mitigation zones by April 1.
In Manhattan, city personnel identified the East Village, Chinatown, the Lower East Side and Harlem as rat hot spots needing increased mitigation efforts. Grand Concourse in the Bronx and Bushwick, Bed Stuy and Prospect Heights in Brooklyn were also identified as rat mitigation zones, according to the New York Post.
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