New York City hires first ‘rat czar’: ‘There’s a new sheriff in town’

New York City’s unending war on rats has a new commanding general. Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday, April 12, announced that Kathleen Corradi, an education department employee, has been appointed New York’s first-ever “rat czar,” part of Adams’ effort to combat a growing rodent population in the county’s most populous city. “You’ll be seeing a lot of me — and a lot less rats,” Corradi, whose official title is “citywide director of rodent mitigation,” said at a news conference. “There’s a new sheriff in town.” Adams, who has often expressed...