New York has declared war on the city’s “number one enemy”: rats. The mayor appointed a woman to combat the plague of rodents in the city.
Kathleen Corradi will be the first rat czarina in the city, where rat sightings have doubled since last year.
It may have been almost 25 years ago that the eye-opening moment that Kathleen Corradi
I would take on that mission. She was ten years old and was walking along the railroad tracks on Long Island with her mother when she saw a dead mouse.
Kathleen was horrified. She circulated a petition among neighbors to deliver to elected officials demanding that the area be cleared. The subway company realized
and did a deratization.
From there to fighting rats, Kathleen Corradi was an elementary school teacher who became a land use and sustainability specialist in New York.
Now, the mayor of New York anticipates that he will face more intense challenges in his new role. But Eric Adams, who introduced her Wednesday in a Harlem park, described her as a “driver” who will successfully coordinate the efforts of various departments to solve the city’s rat problem.
The New York manager concluded that Katheleen Corradi has the right doses of experience, determination and killer instinct for the job.
To control the rat population, Kathleen Corradi said she will focus on reducing food waste. New York implemented a plan to reduce the amount of time
that commercial and residential waste can be left on the street before collection if it is not stored in containers.
The new director of rodent mitigation (as the official title is called) will coordinate the efforts of different agencies, community organizations and private companies to reduce the population of rats that represent a public health problem.
Source: TSF
