Eric Adams slapped with 2 more fines for rat infestation at his Brooklyn townhouse

© Provided by WINS Radio New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing two new fines at his Brooklyn rental property for a rat infestation after a $300 fine for the same issue was dismissed last month.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Mayor Eric Adams' rat problem does not appear to have gone away.

In fact, he is facing two more fines for the second time in less than a year at his Brooklyn townhouse, according to the summonses reviewed by the Daily News.

Shirley Jean, a city Health Department inspector, fined Adams for the latest violations in two separate tickets with a combined maximum penalty of $1,200 after discovering the infestation in his Bedford-Stuyvesant building during a Dec. 7 inspection.

That same day, he told 1010 WINS anchor Susan Richard that he spent $6,800 fighting the vermin on his entire block, saying that there had been a rat issue on the block "for far too long" and that he had educated the residents, who all chipped in.

Adams told Richard that despite being mayor, he is "still a New Yorker" who "did the appropriate thing to deal with the rat problem" on his block.

A $300 fine for a rat infestation in May was dismissed days later by a hearing officer, who ruled that the mayor had "placed rat traps around the property and helped educate and encourage his neighbors to take similar steps to combat infestation," according to the New York Times.

According to the Daily News, Jean said that she spotted recyclables littering the front yard of the Lafayette Avenue rental property, creating "harborage conditions" for the rats. In the second ticket, she listed several "active rat signs" she had seen during her visit.

"A rat burrow was observed along the ledge of the fenceline at front right," she wrote. "Fresh rat droppings were observed in front of the garbage bins in the yard at front right ... An active rat runway was found along the property line at front left."

It's not clear if the rodents made it inside Adams' house, according to the report.

A hearing on the new fines has been scheduled for Jan. 12.

An Adams spokesperson told the Daily News that the mayor is looking into the matter but would not say whether he intended to once again fight the fines.