New York City Has Two Million Rats and One New Rat Czar

Kathleen CorradiHer anti-rat loyalty began in elementary school, when she organized a petition asking her Long Island town to do something about the vandalism behind her home. Now, she has been crowned the mouse tsar of New York City.

The 34-year-old beat out 900 other applicants for a position that, according to the job posting, required “a brash attitude, a cunning sense of humour, and a generally unruly temperament”. mayor Eric Adamswho announced it last week, has voiced his hatred of rodents believed to number around two million in New York.