New York is now offering a $170,000 per year job to help “exterminate” and win their war against rats

In other news more Chinese restaurants open up in ny with an abundance amount of general tso “chicken”
No bullshit, an old coworker of mine told me he once lived next door to a dude who kept a bunch of rabbits in his garage.

One day, he said, he noticed the garage door was open. All the rabbits were gone.

The neighbor owed a Chinese restaurant in town.

Chinese food that ain’t from PF Chang’s ain’t been a thing of mine since. :smh:
 
NYC is so expensive that making $170K on the job killing rats will still have you living with roaches and rats at home.

Badda bing, badda boom. Thats all I got folks. I guess those"Cats" on Broadway aint doing their fucking night job!!
Dude half of these broke NYC drill cats still live with their moms in the projects, and get by killing folks for free, so this is a come up, especially now getting to legally slide on those dirty rats and get paid for it.
They should be lining up around blocks to finally do what they always dreamed of doing, clapping the blickey at the rats.
 
This is a cushy desk job.

Dude will only be there for someone to blame for them spending millions of dollars that will only put a dent in the problem.

There are tunnels and damn near entire cities living underground that I bet many of you don't even know about. There's madd people living down there, with trees the size of 3-4 stories. They've done articles on this, didn't believe it til I had friends who do construction told me about it. People down there are not to be disturbed.

I don't see how they will correct the issue.

He's just creating a position for someone to blame til when he's gone.

The billions that the MTA has in excess every year they could of tried to tackle it as much of the issue lies with the very areas they control underground.
 
NYC couldn't stop the Warriors,The Ninja Turtles and nor Bin Ladden so you think some regular are going to get rid of em....
 
No bullshit, an old coworker of mine told me he once lived next door to a dude who kept a bunch of rabbits in his garage.

One day, he said, he noticed the garage door was open. All the rabbits were gone.

The neighbor owed a Chinese restaurant in town.

Chinese food that ain’t from PF Chang’s ain’t been a thing of mine since. :smh:
I got a better 1 actually a few but I’ll tell you this story.. 1 of my boy owned a townhouse, his next door neighbor was Asian.. said they grew their own food and everything.. said best grapes ull ever taste.. he said one day he looking over his fence and the neighbor got a huge bucket of soap and water and in his hand the nig got a bunch of rats by the tail drowning them in the water.. said his neighbor looked up smiling like hiiii… Asian nig had the grill on in the back.. guess what you think his neighbor had for lunch.. my boy was like He never would eat anything his neighbor would offer that was “meat”
 




 



NYC waged a war on rodents. Now it’s searching for a new ‘rat czar.’
A war is raging in New York City, and the bloodshed is about to begin — at least that’s what city leaders hope as they search for a new “rat czar.”
Rats’ fight for supremacy in the Big Apple has long been a losing battle — but they’re gaining momentum. Though humans still outnumber rats, the rodent population is on the rise, fueled by an ever-present, all-you-can-eat buffet of trash in the city. New York City’s Sanitation Department has seen rat sightings increase by 71 percent since October 2020. Though city exterminators have tried their best, it’s been a resistance movement of sorts as the four-legged enemies scurry off to dark corners and circumvent hunting dogs. The rodents’ antics include harassing pets, attacking pigeons, unmercifully snatching food, and sending people to the hospital — and occasionally, to their deathbeds.


Mayor Eric Adams (D) has had enough — because “there’s NOTHING I hate more than rats,” he posted on Twitter.
A new job listing for “director of rodent mitigation,” posted this week, is almost as hardcore as city officials’ hatred of rats. Among the job requirements: a “swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor, and general aura of badassery.” Also requested are proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; a bachelor’s degree; and a New York City residence.


“If you have the drive, determination, and killer instinct needed to fight New York City’s relentless rat population — then your dream job awaits,” Adams said in his tweet.
Rat catchers share tips and videos of their rodent showdowns
The role comes with a salary between $120,000 and $170,000, far more than New York City’s median household income of $67,000. But be warned, the job isn’t for the squeamish — the rat czar is expected to use “hands-on techniques to exterminate rodents with authority and efficiency.”
“The ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty, determined to look at all solutions from various angles, including improving operational efficiency, data collection, technology innovation, trash management, and wholesale slaughter,” according to the listing, which deems the position a “24/7 job requiring stamina and stagecraft.”


The person who fills the newly created job will report to deputy mayor for operations Meera Joshi, who herself has some … strong feelings about rodents.
“Cunning, voracious, and prolific. NYC’s rats are legendary for their survival skills, but they don’t run this city — we do,” she wrote on Twitter. “Do you have what it takes to lead our war on rats?”
But while the guns-blazing crusade against rats has peaked this year in New York City, antipathy toward them goes way back.
D.C.’s great rat migration — and how they survived during the pandemic
According to a study of the global population of brown rats, the rodents scurrying around dumpsters in cities such as New York and Washington, D.C., trace their origins to China and Mongolia — and they’re the product of centuries of global trade. By taking DNA samples from rats in 30 countries, the researchers found that, though the critters have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, their world-conquering mostly happened in the past three centuries. Hiding inside ships, the brown rat made its way to Europe in the 1500s and then to the Western hemisphere, Africa and Australia as colonizers arrived.

Though rats eventually settled across the United States, there’s perhaps not a city that has historically loathed them as much as New York. A story published by the New York Times in 1865 complained about the “audacious” rodents bullying small dogs in broad daylight.
“New-York is fast gaining an unenviable notoriety for producing a large number of rats and other household nuisances than any other city in the Union, and if the increase continues at the present rate much longer it will be necessary for the Common Council to follow the example of the burghers of Hamelin, and engage a Pied Piper to charm the vermin to their destruction,” the article reads.
Nearly 160 years later, a Pied Piper has yet to rescue a city that isn’t quite considered to be the rattiest in the nation — that title has fallen on Chicago for eight consecutive years, according to an annual study by pest control company Orkin.

But with more than 8 million residents raising their torches against New York City’s approximately 2 million rodents — and a search for a mastermind to exterminate them underway — the rats are, perhaps, “gonna hate this,” as the mayor’s office posited.
“This is not ‘Ratatouille,’” New York City Councilmember Shaun Abreu said during an October news conference, referencing Pixar’s animated film about a rat that can cook. “Rats are not our friends.”


They found someone.

New York City names its first-ever 'rat czar'

"Rats are tough but New Yorkers are tougher."

ByAaron Katersky
April 12, 2023


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New York City now has a "rat czar."

Kathleen Corradi has been named the city's director of rodent mitigation.

"You’ll be seeing a lot of me and a lot less rats," Corradi said Wednesday after she was introduced by Mayor Eric Adams.

Added Adams: "Kathy has the knowledge, drive, experience, and energy to send rats packing and create a cleaner more welcoming city for all New Yorkers."

The mayor also announced $3.5 million for rat mitigation in Harlem. The money will fund new techniques and new staff members to inspect, exterminate and clean public spaces.

"He hates rats. I hate rats. Every New Yorker hates rats," Corradi said. "Rats are tough but New Yorkers are tougher."

Corradi, a former elementary school teacher and land use expert who specializes in urban sustainability, was chosen out of 900 applicants.

"Destiny was calling. You see, I have a long history with rats," she said.

As a child, Corradi said she used to campaign for anti-rat measures in her neighborhood and she previously served as a garden coordinator at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.


She promised to immediately take on litter, garbage and food waste where rats thrive. She will also decide what new products the city should use to get rid of rats.

"Rat mitigation is more than a quality-of-life issue for New Yorkers," she said. "Rats are a symptom of systemic issues, including sanitation, health, housing, and economic justice. New York may be famous for the Pizza Rat, but rats, and the conditions that help them thrive will no longer be tolerated — no more dirty curbs, unmanaged spaces, or brazen burrowing."

The city’s sanitation department previously announced an anti-rat measure to limit the amount of time trash bags sit on curbs.

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New York Rat Czar Kathleen Corradi
 
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