Beta blamed it Citizens of the Big Apple over the city’s rampant rat problems, criticizing Mayor Eric Adams’ recent lynching as “inhumane” and nothing more than a political stunt.
Speaking to DailyMail.com on Sunday, delegate Ashley Byrne offered insight into the activist group’s reaction to Adam’s recent move to hire a $155,000-a-year “Caesar Rat” to carry out the execution.
An official list released by the city called for candidates who were not only hot but “somewhat bloodthirsty” — perks apparently offered by the 34-year-old former elementary school teacher hired for the job last week.
Charged Overseeing the animal activist group’s communications, Byrne — a Brooklyn native herself — described the transition from the former NYPD captain as “cartoonish” and “totally unhelpful.”
Instead of killing the animals — which she calls “smart, sensitive creatures” — Byrne says the city should first look at what attracts rats: the garbage that millions of New Yorkers bring in every day. She suggested birth control as well as increased city clean-up efforts as more sensible alternatives.
Speaking to DailyMail.com on Sunday, delegate Ashley Byrne offered insight into the activist group’s reaction to Adam’s recent move to hire a $155,000-a-year “Caesar Rat” to carry out the execution.

She described Adams’ appointment of Kathleen Corradi as the new citywide rodent mitigation director for an outdoor parade in Harlem’s St. Nicholas Park as nothing more than ‘ghoul political theater’ — a performance that accomplishes “nothing”.

The animal activist said of Adams’ campaign, “It’s troubling that taxpayer dollars are being used for a public servant to stand on a platform to brag about killing these delicate little animals.”
“All you have to do is walk down the street to see what the problem is,” Byrne said when asked about Adam’s ongoing efforts to quell the city’s well-known rat predicament.
“As long as humans litter and leave trash, the rats will be there,” she added.
“You can hire anyone, the rats will come and go as they like as long as the streets remain dirty.”
The city is currently in such a state, she said, that “disgusting human behavior” is to blame.
She described Adams’ hiring of Kathleen Corradi as citywide rodent-mitigation director for an outdoor parade in St. Nicholas Park in Harlem as nothing more than “obscure political theatre”—a performance that accomplishes “nothing”.
Holding a conference and referring to the creatures as some kind of malevolent being gives the appearance of doing something, when in fact it is doing nothing. It’s just cartoonish and totally unhelpful.
“As long as the trash is there and it’s all over town, the rats will be there,” she said.
“It is disturbing that taxpayer dollars are being used for a public servant to stand on the podium to brag about killing these delicate little animals,” she cited feeling pain just as a god or a cat would. “It is reprehensible.”

The latest move from the former NYPD captain — who has so far been unsuccessful in attempts to suppress not only the rat plague but crime — has been criticized as “cartoonish” and “unhelpful.”

At a conference Wednesday, the city laid out a variety of materials it was proposing to use to attack rat populations, including traps, sealants and poisons.
She added that it is easier for a politician – who after failing to suppress the city’s crime rate has expanded his focus to tackle a growing insect population – to blame the four-legged creatures than to acknowledge his failures as a leader.
The city needs to change how it manages trash. The only long-term solution is to treat our city differently.
A killer solution won’t change that. A real solution takes time and effort to bring about long-term change. It is unfortunate that we are instead exposed to these offers.
“We need more serious trash collection, and to get New Yorkers to stop leaving trash on their city streets and treating it like a dump.”
Byrne’s comments come after Adams announced the hiring of the city’s first director of rodent mitigation, crowning Corradi with the job.
This position has been listed for several months, and anyone with a background in urban planning, project management, or government work has been billed.
He. She He explained that the task would require doing “the impossible” to reduce the number of rats in the city, with the main goal being to stop the spread of diseases believed to be commonly carried by insects.
He also suggested that a suitable candidate should have “a cocky attitude, a sly sense of humor, a general aura of smut,” a “knowledge of PowerPoint, and a somewhat ‘bloodthirsty’ nature”.
However, a PETA official called these prerequisites a ‘joke’ – claiming that if the city really cared about solving the prevalent rat problem, they would do something about the dozens of live animal food markets that are currently allowed to operate.
If they were really worried, they wouldn’t allow more than 80 live animal markets to operate within their city limits in the middle of an avian flu outbreak.
The real solution is to take the time and effort to make a long-term change. not this.’
She added that rats will always be synonymous with the city that never sleeps as long as there is garbage, and that the city has no right to kill them in an inhumane way.
Previously, Adams said he was “focused on killing rats,” calling the animals “public enemy number one.”
Now in charge of the killing is Corradi, who worked for the Department of Education and previously led rodent reduction efforts. New York times mentioned.
“With these efforts, nearly 70 percent of schools with persistent rodent problems have reached their compliance goals,” Corradi said of her previous animal control campaigns.
She added, “As New York City’s first Director of Rodent Mitigation, I will provide a science and systems-based approach to reducing the rat population in New York City.
“You’ll see a lot more of me and a lot fewer mice.”
Speaking to The Times, Corradi’s mother has long hated rats. She recounted how ten-year-old Corradi spotted a dead rat near some train tracks on Long Island nearly 25 years ago.
In shock, she circulated a petition among the neighbors and handed it to the local officials demanding that something be done.
“The Long Island Rail Road Company listened,” her mother said. They came and relieved the mice.
At a conference Wednesday, the city laid out on the table a variety of materials it was proposing to use to attack rat populations, including traps, sealants and poisons.
Adams declared war on rats last December when he began his search for someone to fill the new position. “There’s nothing I hate more than mice,” he said while announcing Corradi’s job now.
New York City—the ancient haven of creatures that commonly refer to filth—has a rat population nearly a quarter the size of the human population—nearly two million.
These creatures live for about a year, but their prevalence seemed to increase during an epidemic, when there was less foot traffic to prevent them from venturing onto city streets.
These days, it is believed, the lemmings are becoming increasingly bolder, though daily activities in the Big Apple have mostly resumed as normal.
Adams’ citywide rat issue affected his home as well. In December, he received a summons due to an infestation of rats at the Brooklyn home he shares with his son.
His record showed an unpaid $330 summons fine he received in May — after his Bedford-Stuyvesant home was found to be infested with rodents.
Adams contested the ticket at a hearing before the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings in February, but an officer denied the challenge and ordered the mayor to pay $300.

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Adams invited reporters to tour his basement home in Brooklyn last year, in an effort to prove that he actually lives in the city — not New Jersey.

When Adams was borough president of Brooklyn, he held a press conference to explain that he actually lived on the property
The Adams House is a part-let property. The mayor previously failed to list his home as a renter and critics accused him of actually living in New Jersey with girlfriend Tracy Collins.
To debunk the allegations last year he invited reporters to his Brooklyn home. He said he lived in the basement and rented the floors above to pay for his son Jordan’s college fees.
Adams is registered to vote on the first floor, yet a tenant who has lived there for years is listed under the same unit on multiple documents obtained by Politico last year.