For New York City mayor, his war on rats becomes personal


              FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends a a news conference, Oct. 11, 2022, in New York. Every New York City mayor in recent history has waged battles against Public Enemy No. 1: Rats. But the current mayor, Eric Adams, took the war on vermin into unfamiliar territory when on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 he contested a pair of summonses from his own health department citing him for allegedly allowing broods of rodents to take residence at his Brooklyn property. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
            
              FILE - A caution sign for rodenticide is posted on a fence next door to a building, second from left, owned by New York Mayor Eric Adams in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, Dec. 7, 2022. Mayor Eric Adams took the war on vermin into unfamiliar territory on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 when he contested a pair of summonses from his own health department citing him for allegedly allowing broods of rodents to take residence at his Brooklyn property. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, file)
For New York City mayor, his war on rats becomes personal