New York City’s “rat czar” is scampering out of City Hall.

Kathleen Corradi, who was hired by Mayor Eric Adams in April 2023 as the citywide director of rodent mitigation, will resign from her post, the mayor’s office announced Wednesday. She was heralded as the worst enemy of New York City's rats when she took the newly created role.

The mayor’s office did not clarify when her final day on the job would be.

Adams credited Corradi with a citywide drop in rat sightings, though the exact scope of her $176,000-a-year position was never made clear. The mayor’s office billed her job as one that coordinated several city agencies around the sanitation department’s effort to containerize the city’s garbage and eliminate the piles of trash bags on sidewalks that act as a major food supply for

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