Mayor Eric Adams avoided a potential $600 fine after a municipal administrative judge dismissed a summons issued by a Department of Health inspector who found symptoms of rat infestation in his Brooklyn brownstone.
The complaint filed against Adams’ multi-unit building on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant has been dropped, according to city records examined by The Post on Friday, two days after Mayor de Blasio appeared in a virtual court.
There were no other case-related notes in the file. If confirmed, the infringement held the possibility of a $300-$600 penalties.
The summons embarrassed Adams, who has made combating severe rat infestations in the city one of his trademark achievements during his one-year tenure as mayor.
The fight against citywide rat infestations is one of the mayor’s top priorities.
His administration has established a rat “czar” position with an annual salary of $170,000 to coordinate rodent response among the numerous organizations entrusted with anti-rat measures, including the Sanitation and Health departments.
City Hall has launched a new pilot program to test containers for holding trash bags from companies in two neighborhoods — Brooklyn Heights and Times Square — as a potential method for keeping rats away from the garbage.
Officials are rolling out new laws in the spring that will push the trash set-out time to 8 p.m. and move a significant amount of the collection to midnight, all in an effort to significantly minimize the number of times rats must fight their way into the trash.
A city administrative judge dismissed the Department of Health inspector’s summons filed against Mayor Adams.
As a potential method to keep waste out of the reach of rats, City Hall has introduced a new pilot program to test containers that hold trash bags from companies.
Previously, businesses and homeowners were permitted to throw their trash out as early as 4 p.m., with collection occurring early the next morning.
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