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“Eric Adams hit with more rodents summonses at NYC building”

Rats, they’re back!

A city Health Department inspector recently hit Mayor Eric Adams with two new summonses for vermin on his Brooklyn property after finding evidence of a rat “runway” and other telltale signs of rodents at the multi-unit brownstone, records show.

The summonses come seven months after a previous Health Department inspection uncovered evidence of a rat infestation at the building on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

rats — Adams made rodent infestations a signature initiative during his first year in office.

Eric Adams brooklyn — The Health Department inspection uncovered evidence of a rat infestation at the building on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

brooklyn apartment — Adams once called a press conference to demonstrate a contraption that drowns rats in poison.

Adams property — The maximum penalty for both tickets is $500

Both instances are an embarrassment for the mayor, who has made battling the Big Apple’s chronic rodent infestations a signature initiative of his first year in office.

The fresh round of tickets, issued to Hizzoner on Dec. 7, revealed that DOHMH found evidence of a rat burrow near the property’s front fence, spotted droppings near trash cans placed nearby and discovered “signs” of a rat “runway.”

The inspector also deemed a pile of recycling in the front yard as “harborage conditions” that could encourage the nesting of additional rats.

Mayor Eric Adams received two summonses for vermin on his Brooklyn property.

The maximum penalty for both tickets is $500. Adams’ date before an administrative judge hearing the case is tentatively set for Jan. 12.

But Hizzoner said in a statement Tuesday that he smells a rat in this whole saga.

“As I have said repeatedly, it is so important that each of us does our part to address the rats that all New Yorkers hate, and that’s why I keep my yard clean and garbage in covered trash bins,” he said.

“I am concerned that, despite previously spending nearly $7,000 on rat mitigation efforts, I received two new summonses on the same day, even though a neutral hearing officer found that I ‘demonstrate[d] sufficient steps taken … to prevent and control infestation at [my] property.

“I will again challenge these violations and show that rats don’t run this city.”

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