After posting video of a 'Rat Zoo' in Collect Pond Park that was widely reported on elsewhere in the news, a reader emailed to comment on recent layoffs affecting 70% of all city Pest Control Aides by the Dept. of Health, in effect decimating the department in all five boroughs. Zita Allen, with District Council 37 of American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, noted: "Isn’t it ironic that the NYC rat problem comes just months after the Dept. of Health laid off 70% of the city’s Pest Control Aides."According to Allen, Manhattan had only six CPCAs for the entire borough; four have been laid off, leaving just two. CPCAs work to prevent not only rats, but bed bugs, which have reached epidemic proportions in New York City. In follow up emails, he expounded further...
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