There are difficult missions and impossible missions.
Kathleen Corradi, a teacher and biologist, has the second option, that impossible one that consists, according to Mayor Eric Adams, of ending New York's "public enemy number one": rats.
With a salary of $155,000 a year, Corradi is a pioneer by becoming the first person to serve as director of rodent mitigation for the entire Big Apple, a position popularly known as rat czar.
Adams, famous for hunting these mammals that disgust him, opened a candidate search period in December. This Wednesday he announced that Corradi, until now in the Department of Education, was his chosen one to coordinate all the efforts of the city to exterminate this plague, whose members have lost their shyness after the hunger they suffered during the closure of the pandemic. Now they roam free without fear, beyond the limits of the subsoil.
“Rat mitigation is more than a quality of life issue,” Corradi stressed at the presentation ceremony.
“They are the symptom of systemic problems, including sanitation, health, housing and economic justice. As the first principal, I am excited to bring a science-based approach and strategies to fight rats,” she said.
“New York may be famous for the rat with the pizza in its mouth, but the conditions that help them thrive are not going to be tolerated, no more dirty clutter, uncontrolled spaces or burrows,” he said.
You know what's going on. At the Department of Education, he has already launched a plan to reduce rodents in 120 school buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx.
It will also develop "high technology" against the murine, acting above all in their sources of food. You will have piecework to put an end to the garbage in the streets.
