Mayor Eric Adams escapes potential $600 rat infestation fine at Brooklyn home

Mayor Eric Adams has escaped a potential $600 fine after a city administrative judge dismissed a summons issued by a Department of Health inspector, who discovered signs of a rat infestation at his Brooklyn brownstone.

City records reviewed by The Post on Friday showed that the complaint filed against Adams’ multi-unit building on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant has been dismissed, two days after Hizzoner testified in a virtual hearing.

There were no other notes about the case included in the file. If affirmed, the violation carried the threat of a fine of between $300-$600.

The summons was an embarrassment for Adams, who has made fighting widespread rat infestations across the city one of the signature initiatives of his year-old mayoralty.

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His administration has created a $170,000-a-year rat ‘czar’ position to coordinate rodent response among the slew of agencies tasked with anti-rat measures, including the Sanitation and Health departments.

City Hall has rolled out a new pilot program testing containers to hold trash bags from businesses in two neighborhoods — Brooklyn Heights and Times Square — as a potential way to keep the refuse out of the reach of the rats.

Meanwhile, officials are rolling out new regulations in the spring that will push the trash set-out time to 8 pm and move a substantial portion of the pick-up to midnight — all in a bid to dramatically reduce the number of times rats have to claw their way into the garbage.

Previously, businesses and residents had been allowed to set out their trash as early as 4 pm and pickup took place early the next morning.