#NYC will be overrun by rats if de Blasio doesn’t curb trash: pols

City streets could soon become the backdrop for a live action “Ratatouille” if officials don’t come up with creative solutions to the growing trash and rodent problem caused by coronavirus-induced budget cuts, local pols warned Tuesday.

“These rats have the run of New York City,” said Comptroller Scott Stringer at a Harlem press conference about the infestation.

“These rats are walking around waiting for a table at outdoor seating,” Stringer quipped, invoking the animated 2007 Disney film about an alliance between an anthropomorphic rat who wants to become a chef and a a restaurant’s garbage boy.

“I’ve seen them walking upright. They come up to me and say, ‘Good morning Mr. Comptroller.’ They have become part of the fabric of this city because city government has failed to get trash and sanitation under control,” he said at the press conference with Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan).

City Hall cleaved more than $21 million for litter basket pickup from the Sanitation Department’s budget, reducing service from seven to three days a week. Rat sightings ballooned from under 1,000 in April to over 1,600 in June.

“The mounds of garbage are both unsightly and unsanitary, driving away customers at a time when small businesses are struggling to survive, and attracting rats and vermin which spread disease while our city is in the midst of a deadly pandemic,” Stringer and Espaillat wrote in a letter to heads of the Depts. of Sanitation and Health.

They said their offices have fielded dozens of complaints from business owners in the last few weeks about overflowing waste baskets in front of their shops.

The pols asked the agency heads to allow business owners to put their own trash bins in front of stores without facing fines, use sealed bins for garbage collection days to reduce vermin, and find ways to combat rats with the advent of outdoor dining.

A Sanitation Dept. spokeswoman said the city can’t solve the problems alone.

“As the mayor has made clear, the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on our economy continues, the City needs federal aid or long-term borrowing authority more than ever. Without these, we could be further forced to cut core services even further.

“As always, we rely on the partnership of our fellow New Yorkers — residents and business alike — to keep our city clean, and we’re grateful for their cooperation,” she said.