Who wants to be a rat czar? Lots of people. New York City drew 900 applicants for the job, which required a “swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor, and general aura of badassery.”
Kathleen Corradi’s anti-rat bona fides date to grade school, when she organized a petition drive to have her Long Island town do something about an infestation behind her house. Now, she has been crowned New York City’s rat czar.
The 34-year-old beat out 900 other applicants for a position that, the job posting said, requires a “swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor, and general aura of badassery.” Mayor Eric Adams, who announced it last week, has been vocal about his hatred of a rodent thought to number around two million in New York.
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