They’re on a mission to put the city’s vermin problem to bed.
The Adams administration is unleashing an $877,000 rat death squad to find the rodents, gas them to death with carbon monoxide and bury them in and around the Big Apple’s 600,000 tree beds.
The Street Tree Bed Rat Mitigation program will include a specialized team of a dozen exterminators, park workers and others with inspecting tree beds and deploying carbon monoxide inside rat burrows – where “rodent squatters” will meet their ends with their tunnels turned to graves, officials said at a news conference on Sunday.
“By cleaning up trash and hiring a team of experts to clear out burrows while caring for our trees, we are reclaiming public space, fighting rats, and improving quality of life for all New Yorkers,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. “Our administration continues to build on the work we are doing to end the dominance of trash and rats on our streets.”…