NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed Wednesday to fight his own city council again after he was fined for mice in his Brooklyn home.
An inspector from the city’s health department issued two new subpoenas last month, just one day after the Democratic mayor remotely appeared before a hearing councilor on Dec. 6 to obtain a $300 subpoena for rats fired in his property.
“A rat hole was observed along the ledge of the fence at the front right,” the inspector wrote. “Fresh rat droppings were observed in front of the dumpsters in the right yard.”
Not true, Adams insisted. “I have a camera at home and I’ve been thinking about that date,” she said. “My garden is clean. My trash is in the bins. I go there, mud. My house is clean.”
An administrative hearing on the new subpoenas is scheduled for Jan. 12, and Adams said he would plead his case one more time. “I encourage any New Yorker: Get a subpoena, feel it was done wrongly, go and fight,” Adams said. “And that’s what I’ll do. I’ll follow the process.”
Adams was asked about the rats at an unrelated press conference after the Daily News report the latest violations. The mayor, who had made rat eradication a key policy goal for the city, said he was equally committed to ridding his home of pests.
“I spent $7,000 mitigating rats,” he said. “You have to be really afraid of rats to spend $7,000.”
