A trail of trash on the city’s pavement, perhaps inflamed by a COVID-era growth in residential garbage, has supercharged the rat troubles.
In the first nine months of 2022, the city fielded almost 21,600 rat complaints, a tally 71% higher than the count reported at the same point in 2020, according to government data.
Councilman Chi Ossé, a Brooklyn Democrat and a sponsor on three of the bills, described summers in Bedford-Stuyvesant as “flattened-rat season” given the amount of rodent roadkill splayed on streets.Mark Levine, the Manhattan borough president and a co-sponsor of Bottcher’s bill, said the city has a “serious problem here, and it’s getting worse.”
“It’s a public health crisis,” Levine said. “It’s a quality of life crisis. It’s an equity crisis. We’ve got to address it.”
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