NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams appeared in a virtual courtroom Thursday to demand tickets he received for a rat infestation at his Brooklyn home be dismissed.
Adams, who quipped last month that he was “looking forward to be the chocolate Perry Mason” while contesting the tickets, spent over 30 minutes in an online Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings proceeding, laying out evidence about why he believes his rodent violation summonses should be tossed out.
For starters, Adams shared receipts with the presiding OATH officer showing he has shelled out nearly $8,000 since last March on extermination services, traps and other gadgets to crack down on rats outside his three-story property on Lafayette Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The mayor rents out two of the floors in the building, and he said all his tenants have been helpful in keeping the front yard “extremely clean.”
