Posted on: April 12, 2023 03:32 PM

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NYC finally has a rats czar

Meet Kathy Corradi, the new director of rats mitigation in NYC.She is the first employee created for the job and the pay is over $200,000 plus perks.

This is a $3.5 million budget department.

Corradi will coordinate across city government agencies, community organizations, and the private sector to reduce the rat population to building a cleaner, more welcoming city and tackling a major quality-of-life and health issue. The project will start with Harlem Rat Mitigation Zone.

19 full-time staff and 14 seasonal staff to inspect, exterminate, and maintain or clean public spaces to prevent "mischiefs" of rats.

New equipment, like tilt trucks, to better contain and manage waste and extermination supplies, such as bait, traps, sensors, fumigation machines (including Burrow RX and CO2 machines); Rat Ice; and exclusion methods, like wire lathe around structural rat burrows and landscaper fabric designed to keep pests out.

Eight new "Rat Slabs" at NYCHA Douglass Houses and Johnson Houses, a rat mitigation tool to harden earthen floors and prevent rat burrowing.