Are New York City’s millions of rats are playing hide and squeak, or are weary residents are just getting tired of complaining about them?
Mayor Eric Adams’ office Monday, who in March had appointed a “rat czar” to eradicate the vermin from New York.garbage bags on the sidewalk after 8 p.m.“While it’s still early, any sign that there are fewer rats in our city is a welcome one,” mayoral spokesperson Kate Smart said in a statement.
However, health officials pointed out that the city’s 2,350 rat complaints last month still marked the second highest total over the last 14 Mays, and suggested that last year’s 2,767 complaints that month were driven by the return to in-person work and higher temperatures. In May of 2010, the city had only recorded 1,066 rat complaints, according to city data. That figure tacked upwards over the next decade before ballooning by 39% in 2021, the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic.has panned
It was too early to tell if the city’s mitigation efforts and education campaigns were responsible for the decrease in complaints. Though the figure marked a decrease from last year, New York City’s 2,350 rat complaints last month were still much more than usual.“I have been critical of the current approach because there doesn’t appear to be any data collected for any of these approaches,” Parsons said. “It is possible one or more of these approaches is having some benefit.
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