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NYC’s winning Eric Adams’ war on rats — LA should give him a call

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New York City is winning ex-Mayor Eric Adams’ war on rats — and it looks like Los Angeles should give him a call.

Gotham’s 311 line got about 9,900 calls for rats in the first seven months of 2026 — a 22% drop from 2025 and the first time the number fell below 10,000 for that period since 2020.

And everyone knows Adams deserves the credit — since no past mayor had ever dared declare this war, which seemed unwinnable.

Yet he and then-Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch got it done, with aggressive animal control and innovations like the sealed Empire Bins that replaced easy-access piles of trash and overflowing cans on the streets.

Now, more than 70% of New York........

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