NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed Wednesday to fight his own City Hall 鈥� again 鈥� after he was ticketed for rats at his Brooklyn townhouse.
A city health department inspector had issued two new summonses last month, just one day after the Democratic mayor on Dec. 6 to get a $300 summons for rats at his property dismissed.
鈥淎 rat burrow was observed along the ledge of the fenceline at front right,鈥� the inspector wrote. 鈥滷resh rat droppings were observed in front of the garbage bins in the yard at front right."
Not true, Adams insisted. 鈥淚 have a camera at the house, and I looked back on that date,鈥� he said. 鈥淢y yard is clean. My garbage is in containers. I go there, I sweep up. My place is clean.鈥�
An administrative hearing on the new summonses is scheduled for Jan. 12, and Adams said he would plead his case once again. 鈥淚 encourage any New Yorker: You get a summons, you feel it was done unjustly, go and fight it,鈥� Adams said. 鈥淎nd that鈥檚 what I鈥檓 going to do. I鈥檓 going to follow the process.鈥�
Adams was asked about rats at an unrelated news conference after the Daily News The mayor, who had made rat eradication a key said he is equally committed to ridding his own house of the pests.
鈥淚 spent $7,000 to do rat mitigation,鈥� he said. 鈥淵ou have to be really scared of rats to spend $7,000.鈥�
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