New York mayor contests $300 fine from own administration over rat infestation

Eric Adams issued summons by health department in May after inspector spotted fresh rat droppings' at his Brooklyn townhouse

New York City mayor Eric Adams is such an enemy of rats that he once called a press conference to demonstrate a contraption for drowning them in poison. Now Adams finds himself contesting a $300 fine issued by his own administration over a rat infestation at a building he owns in Brooklyn.

Adams was issued a summons by the city health department on 10 May after a health inspector spotted fresh rat droppings" at his townhouse on Lafayette Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.