Transcript: Deputy Mayor For Public Safety Banks To Hold Briefing On Public Safety In New York City

July 28, 2023

Moderator: Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us for today's Public Safety Briefing led by Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks. Following our last speaker, we will take a few questions from the media followed by some questions that have been submitted by the public ahead of today's briefing. I would now like to turn it over to Deputy Mayor Phil Banks.

Deputy Mayor Philip Banks III, Public Safety: Good afternoon and welcome. We're joined here today by the New York City Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol, and he's going to provide some safety tips and some other critically important information to the New Yorkers because it has been extremely hot and this weather could be continuing in the near future. We also have Department of Buildings Commissioner, James Oddo. He's going to give an update on the city's emergency operation following a very concerning incident that took place on Wednesday in Manhattan, and that was the crane collapse. And last but not least, we have our director of rodent mitigation, Kathleen Corradi, who's officially known as the Rat Czar. And we've gotten so many calls about people not seeing as many rats as they used to. It's contributed to the fantastic, fantastic work that she's done, and she's just going to give us some updated information of what she's done and what we're going to continue to do.

But just a quick recap for those who are tuning in for the first time, we had these weekly briefings, so you, New Yorkers can hear directly from this particular administration about what we're doing and updates about public safety. We certainly want to hear from you as much as we possibly can. We want you to tell us what we're doing right, what we're doing wrong, what we need to do a little bit better. We listen, we incorporate this. It has a direct impact on how we're going to operate. And as the mayor always says, "As a team, we can win this." My ask of you today, as you're watching or listening to today's discussion, to take at least one piece of information that you deem valuable and share it with a neighbor, a loved one, a friend, et cetera, et cetera.

And that's how we spread the information, we spread the intel, and in fact, we can have some success. We want to make sure our families, friends, and neighbors are safe, and the best way to do that is for them to be informed. If you've been outside in the last 24 hours or so, you know that it's very hot outside. Extreme heat like this can be dangerous. We have to be very strategic how we combat this. Yesterday, the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning. What does that mean? That means it's hot and it may be getting hotter.

We need this as a team to work together to combat this. We need to be very, very strategic about this. Here's the takeaway for me at least initially. If you have air conditioning and you're cool, check on someone who does not, a neighbor, a loved one, a friend, offer up your residence or the places that you know they can become cool. Once we ensure that we take care of ourselves, let's reach out and take care of our neighbors. And the commissioner is certainly going to advise us on the public cooling locations that people can go to in the event that they need it. With that, I'd like to turn it over to you, commissioner. It's been hot, it's going to be hot. What do we need to do to try to mitigate this?

Commissioner Zach Iscol, New York City Emergency Management: Yep. So first off, thank you, deputy mayor. Thanks for having me here today. Great to be here with Jimmy and Kathleen as well. And as you said, it is hot. It was hot yesterday. There was an excessive heat warning that was downgraded for today through tomorrow to a heat advisory by the National Weather Service. And as we have seen over the last month plus, we're facing a lot of different types of extreme weather events across the country. We have extreme heat in the Southwest. We've had extreme flooding in upstate New York and Vermont. We've certainly seen our fair share here in the city with floods, with the air pollution last month, and we now have heat to contend with. We also had a microburst earlier this week. We're certainly dealing with our fair share of weather, and that's all to say that New Yorkers really need to make sure that they are doing everything they can to prepare.

There's a lot that we do as a city to prepare for these types of events. Something like heat, initially, we start working days in advance with the National Weather Service, with our inter-agency partners, with the private sector, nonprofits, community-based organizations and ConEd to make sure the grid is prepared and the city is prepared for these types of events. And then we offer things to New Yorkers. We offer public information and guidance, things like turn your thermostat to 78 degrees, so cool enough to keep you cool, but not so cool that you're placing an undue burden on the electrical grid that could lead to blackouts or brownouts around the city. We encourage people, you see people opening up fire hydrants around the city. That's not safe. It decreases the pressure in the fire hydrant system, which makes it more difficult for our fire department to fight fires.

But you can go to any fire department in the city and you can get spray caps that you can then place, and that reduces the amount of water that's coming out, but you can also then have some spray to keep cool. We do a lot of work to protect vulnerable populations. We have our Department of Homeless Services has teams out there doing something called a Code Red, making sure we're getting our homeless, unhoused individuals off the streets and into cooler places. And then we've opened up cooling centers. We've extended pool hours, and as I said, opened up cooling centers. You can learn more about where those cooling centers are and more tips at nyc.gov/beattheheat or by calling 311. And before you go to a cooling center, it's really important that you do that, that you check the hours, find out if it's open.

We don't want you going out in the heat to then arrive at a place that may be closed because it's outside their hours. And the other thing I'd just say about cooling centers is these are places that they're like libraries, they're dual use places that provide respite from the heat. There's a lot of other ways to do that too. You can go to a coffee shop, you can go see a movie this weekend, but going to any cool place can be really helpful. Those are both things that we're doing and also things that New Yorkers need to be aware of, and as you said, deputy mayor, always really important that you are checking in on your neighbors, especially the most vulnerable. Other weather issues that we're contending with, today and this weekend, there is an air quality advisory in effect right now. We have an AQI of 108, which is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

That's children, older adults, people with respiratory and heart conditions due to ozone, not due to wildfires. And we also have, our flash flood plan has been activated in anticipation of potential storms tomorrow afternoon. The city's very busy. We ask all New Yorkers to follow public health guidance, and as always, sign up for Notify NYC, our public messaging system. That's where we can provide you all the information you need to stay safe, keep your loved ones safe. You can sign up at nyc.gov/notify, by calling 311 or by downloading the app that's available in 14 languages, including American Sign Language and the best way to have the information you need. Thank you.

Deputy Mayor Banks: Thank you. Let's recap this for a minute, commissioner. One, we'll give everybody a second. If you're home watching this, go to your thermostat now and make some type of an adjustment. Because if you don't, there's a possibility that there could be some type of a brownout and you won't have the electricity. We need to think of not only ourselves, but we need to think of our loved ones. We need you to adjust those thermostats to a point where you're still cool, but the fact that we can almost hopefully increase the chances of it won't be overburdened. We need you to be able to do that. Now, if you need a location for the cooling center, you say there's a couple of ways. One, you can call 311?

Commissioner Iscol: Always. Yep. Call 311. Or you can go to nyc.gov/beattheheat.

Deputy Mayor Banks: All right. And you said these places are not just for you to… There's libraries and other dual uses.

Commissioner Iscol: Dual use. Yeah.

Deputy Mayor Banks: You might be able to take care of other things that you're doing in those particular locations, and we certainly want you to in fact share this information with your neighbors. How long can we anticipate this heat?

Commissioner Iscol: The good news is it should be through tomorrow, and then Sunday should be beautiful. It should be much more temperate weather on Sunday.

Deputy Mayor Banks: Okay. We've been dealing with a lot, and commissioner, your agency and the people and the residents of the city that worked with you, we've been dealing with these fires that's coming from up north. Your team is doing a great job in connection with the residents, and now we have this extreme heat. Certainly, thank you. We want to make sure we push out this information as much as possible.

Commissioner Iscol: Thank you.

Deputy Mayor Banks: I certainly appreciate it. Okay, so on Wednesday, for a lot of people who may know, in case you didn't know, on Wednesday in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan around 10th Avenue, West 41st Street, there was a crane operating at a construction site, and it caught fire and sustained a partial collapse. The crane, the boom and a load of concrete fell. We were relatively fortunate is that that New Yorkers didn't suffer any severe injuries. There was some minor injuries, but I don't even want to say minor, because if you were the person who got injured, right, it's not minor to you. But we were relatively fortunate as that it could have been a lot more dangerous. There was really a great response and a swift response from the FDNY, Department of Buildings, NYPD, NYCEM to get to the scene.

And we pretty much avoided something that could have been very catastrophic. So can you just let us know, Jimmy, what happened? What was the follow-up, and what do we do to try to minimize these things happening in the future?

Commissioner Jimmy Oddo, Department of Buildings: Yep. Thank you, deputy mayor, for the chance to be here today and to update New Yorkers. Fortunate, indeed. The first thing that Mayor Adams said when he spoke to the media and to New Yorkers was that we were extremely fortunate. Two days later, I think, it's even more evident how fortunate we were. I have with me just one of the thousands of shards of glass that rained down across 10th Avenue that day, in addition to the part of the crane.

As I said on Wednesday morning, this mayor doesn't expect this team to rely on luck. So our obligation, our commitment is to look under every stone to figure out what went wrong here and determine what was preventable so that we do not have a repeat of this. Before I recap and update some of the things that have gone on the last two days, I do want to say thank you to our partners, to the NYPD, to the FDNY, to my good friend Commissioner Iscol, and all the good people at OEM. Thank you for the level of professionalism.

And I do want to take a point of personal privilege. This was the first incident like this during my brief tenure, my two and a half months at DOB. And I just want to shout out to our agency. The mayor, when he hired me as DOB Commissioner, charged me with the responsibility of continuing to improve this agency. And we know we have improvements to make. But on that day, you New Yorkers got to see the professionalism of this agency that sometimes doesn't come to the fore.

Structural engineers, inspectors have been all over that site for two days. And a shout-out to Wilkin Deleon, who's this really talented engineer. Shout-out to the Chief Inspector Frank Damiani, who is a quintessential New York character in New York institution. That level of professionalism in this agency happens every day, and it's in those critical moments that we get to see it, and I got to see it up close.

So again, I appreciate the opportunity, DM, to recap and remind New Yorkers where what happened and where we're at. As you said, early Wednesday morning, while construction crews were using a tower crane to lift the load of concrete to the 36th floor of a new tower development project on 10th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a fire broke out on the machine deck of the crane. The fire severely damaged the crane, causing the boom to fully collapse and detach from the crane, striking the adjacent tower on its way down to the street level.

The collapse sent glass and concrete debris raining down onto 10th Avenue. I think we've all seen the gut-wrenching videos of the incident showing the catastrophic collapse over one of our city's busiest streets. It's truly nothing short of miraculous that no one perished and no one was seriously injured in the incident.

As soon as we were made aware of the incident, DOB crane inspectors and structural engineers quickly rushed to the location to assist our city first responders. FDNY personnel worked without pause to put out the raging fire on the tower crane, and along with the NYPD, the Port Authority Police, Emergency Management, our friends at Community Assistance Unit all helped to secure the surrounding area while DEP, ConEd, MTA mobilized to protect the city's critical infrastructure. Again, I want to personally thank all of our fellow agencies on scene that day for the first class job, showing the world what a major emergency response and inter-agency cooperation is supposed to look like.

New Yorkers should know that public safety is the top priority of every agency involved in the response and that, over the past several days, DOB structural engineers have been closely scrutinizing the damaged tower crane, the Tower Construction Project, and the neighboring tower that was struck by the boom. All three have been found to be structurally stable, and we have found no evidence of any of them currently posing a risk to the public.

Following extensive inspections conducted by DOB and our partners in law enforcement, cleanup and recovery operations began in earnest yesterday morning. A small and mobile crane was brought to the scene by the construction contractors to help move the collapsed boom arm from the construction site. Lifted away from the site workers have been able to cut the boom into pieces, which have since been carted away from the scene.

DOB is now coordinating with contractors and their engineers as they devise a plan to bring another larger crane into the city to remove the damaged tower crane. Construction crews have also worked to identify any part of the under-construction tower, the neighboring tower, and the crane that was damaged and possibly in danger of falling. All of the loose debris has been removed or secured, mitigating potential falling hazards. Simultaneously, the contractors have removed the majority of the glass and concrete debris from 10th Avenue. This quick work has enabled us to reopen 10th Avenue to vehicular traffic.

While this cleanup has been proceeding, DOB investigators have been hard at work getting to the bottom of how this collapse occurred. That investigation is currently in its infancy, and we will be working closely with our partners in law enforcement throughout. Yesterday, our crane inspectors were able to access the fire-damaged crane cab, braving the 550-foot climb up into the air so that they could... The inspectors who made the climb were able to get a closer look of the damage caused by the fire.

I want to reiterate that, from everything we have seen up close, the tower crane is stable, and we have found no evidence that it currently poses a hazard to public safety. We want the results of this investigation to be transparent so we can share with the public not only how this happened, but what we can do to prevent something like this from happening in the future. At this time, the investigation is ongoing, and we have not made any final determinations on the case of the fire and the... On the cause of the fire and collapse.

New York City has rigorous crane and construction safety regulations in place to protect the public. Tower crane collapses like this are thankfully an extremely rare occurrence in our city. That said, we can all agree that even one of these incidents is entirely too many.

When we have more information on exactly what happened, we will continue to keep the public informed. And finally, again, I would like to take a moment to draw our attention to the tremendous work done by the men and women of the New York City Department of Buildings. You have lots of units, DM. DOB's Cranes & Derricks Unit, the Forensic Engineering Unit, the Emergency Response Team, the Construction Engineering Unit, the Construction Safety Enforcement Unit. These are the folks that have the backs of New Yorkers. And again, the commitment is that as soon as we have answers, we will make them public, and we will be as transparent in this process as possible. Just a reminder, it's 48 hours into this process and... Give us some time and we will share what we learn.

Deputy Mayor Banks: Yeah. Excellent. Hey, you know, I just want to touch on two points. One, if I live on a block, I live in a neighborhood prior to that construction starting up again because another crane has to come in to complete the work, we are going to take that through, I'm sure, a very vigorous prospect so that if you see the next crane is coming up, we're going to be clear that that has a complete safety stamp of approval.

Commissioner Oddo: There are various entities that are involved in a crane process. Every single entity, every single variable in this situation is being analyzed. And deputy mayor, the next crane that comes in to reach a tipping height of 582 feet will be a much larger crane than the mini mobile crane that was out removing the debris yesterday. You can rest assured that we will be looking at those plans that the contractor submits to us before that crane is put in place and that crane is utilized to secure and remove the existing damaged crane.

Deputy Mayor Banks: The second point I just want to touch on is that it's the Department of Buildings, and I just have the ability to just deal with them, of course, much closer than the public, but they are the unsung heroes in so many ways. It's incredible the kind of work that they do. They never ever get the credit. The news is not on the front line. They probably don't choose to be, but to the New Yorkers out there, the integrity of these buildings and the safety of these buildings lies almost exclusively in the lapse of the agency, and you're doing a fantastic job. And I'm not the pat on the back type of an individual but your agency doesn't get enough credit for what it does, so I'm glad that you pointed it out and I just wanted to say salute to you and…

Commissioner Oddo: Thank you for that, and listen, we know we have work to do at the agency, that's the mayor's charge, but that doesn't negate the professionalism every day. These are the best engineers and folks in their field, and New Yorkers should know when we have moments like this, we have true professionals in every agency that rise to the occasion and I got to see it. And DM, in a moment of candor, in a previous life, I was one of the folks that was perhaps gratuitously critical of the agency. Having lived this now for two and a half months, I'm aware of the things that we need to work on and get better. I'm not shying away from that, but I'm also awfully proud of and impressed by the professionals in this agency.

Deputy Mayor Banks: Fantastic. Thank you, commissioner. I really appreciate it. So last but not least, I am here once again with who we refer to as the rat czar. This is our director of rodent mitigation, Kathleen Corradi. As the mayor often says, public safety is not just about reducing crime. People have to be safe, but as important, they need to feel safe, and a big part of feeling safe is living in a neighborhood that is clean, and we all have a role to play in keeping New York City clean. When it comes to cleanliness of our city, public enemy number one are the rats. And as my good friend and former colleague, Jessi Tisch, commissioner of sanitation says, "The rats don't run this city, we do." And a big part of we is the person who has taken the charge on this, and that charge is led by our director here.

And I got a call other day, I shared it with you earlier, and I got a call from someone, I won't mention her name but she's relatively well known in the public arena, and she says, "What are y'all doing with all of those rats? Where are these rats at? I don't see these rats anymore." And it's a great compliment if you had heard it. So rat czar, thank you very much. Tell us what you're doing and tell us how New Yorkers are going to see less and less rats as the time goes on.

Kathleen Corradi, Director of Rodent Mitigation: Thank you, deputy mayor, and we love to hear that feedback that New Yorkers are seeing less rats. We know Mayor Adams has declared a war on rats, and thanks to the hard work across many agencies, we're winning this war. 311 complaints are down for rat sightings 20 percent this year, and even more in our rodent mitigation zones. The Department of Health is out in force conducting biannual inspections of every property in the rodent mitigation zones. That's in addition to their inspections for all 311 complaints citywide.

As the foundation for our city's approach to integrated pest management, this inspection data ensures we are targeting resources and working with private properties to affect change. New York City Parks, New York City Schools and NYCHA are doubling down on rat reduction, utilizing seasonal staff and pest control teams to make sure our city's properties are inhospitable to rats. They're removing harbourage, managing waste, and deploying extermination techniques to make sure we're knocking down rat populations.

Citywide, we're cutting off rats from their food because we know, if you feed them, you breed them. Through DSNY's new curb set out times and rules around containerizations for food establishments, we're systematically taking away rats' access to fruit food on our curbs and making New York a cleaner city. But we know the city can't do this work alone, which is why we're excited to host our first Anti-Rat Day of Action in Harlem next month. Taking place on August 12th, the Harlem Day of Action will bring together city and community partners to share best practices and take action on street tree care, waste and litter management and rodent mitigation. We'll have agencies across the cities there to highlight their work they're doing and pitch in on our street cleaning efforts. We're also planning to host more of these, one in every borough by city's end, so be on the lookout for when they come to a neighborhood near you.

Deputy Mayor Banks: So when is this first one going to kick off and what are we calling that again? The Harlem?

Corradi: The Anti-Rat Day of Action.

Deputy Mayor Banks: Okay.

Corradi: It's in Harlem on August 12th.

Deputy Mayor Banks: On August 12th. And every borough's going to have at least one location between now and the end of the…

Corradi: Correct. We know that it takes everyone and we want to make sure we're directly connecting city resources to communities, and we know that needs to be a citywide effort.

Deputy Mayor Banks: So how would the New Yorkers find out when it's taking place in their respective borough that they're interested in? Are you going to post it online or how would they find it? On 311 or what?

Corradi: Yeah, we'll get information out through the different media channels we have at City Hall, but also be connecting with our community partners in the different boroughs to make sure they're connecting grassroots with their neighbors to make sure the message is out there.

Deputy Mayor Banks: Listen, rats have been around since the beginning of time, right? They've been very resilient, they're survivors.

Corradi: Absolutely.

Deputy Mayor Banks: But truly, about almost all indicators, it's happening. And I've never been one to just shoot any type of alarm, rah, rah, rah. It's clearly, I've heard from numerous people, and I didn't even know the statistics about the 311 calls being down, but I hear from many people about they actually see that particular difference. So I don't live in one of those zones, I'm glad I don't, but I do know people in those zones. Specifically Harlem has stated that they actually are seeing a lot less and they would seeing a lot, lot more, so certainly hats off to you. Please stay informed, listen to the tips that you can do to help us because the city cannot run on just administration of loan. This is a teamwork. The mayor's been saying this from day one. If we work together as a team, we actually can do this. So once again, I appreciate you tuning in. Derek?

Moderator: Thank you. We will now open it up for few on topic questions, if there are any.

Question: Commissioner Oddo. You look at the rules of the city of New York which govern buildings, building code, cranes, and the only mention of fire is for fire extinguisher. In 2012, a similar crane fire in Sydney, Australia, and what that city did was institute that there should be early detection. A fire happens on a tower crane, there's a siren that goes off to alert people. Is that something that the city could consider? Is that something you're thinking about?

Commissioner Oddo: Yeah. One of the things that we did immediately was decide to bring on an outside expert on cranes to look top to bottom at this specific incident to see what lessons can be learned and what changes we might want to implement. We actually got approval this morning from the controller's office to solicit six of those firms. This is a similar sort of approach to what the agency is doing on Ann Street with the collapse of that parking garage, so in addition to New York City's investigation, we will have an outside independent entity that has a particular subject matter in cranes take a look at this. We're aware of the Australia situation, so we hope to have that entity on really quickly, and we'll see what kind of feedback we get from them. If they have strong, viable suggestions, we certainly will listen and we will get feedback from the mayor on how he wants to implement them.

Question: Do you anticipate there will be sweeps of other cranes, like how there has been after the Ann Street collapse?

Commissioner Oddo: Yeah, we have not started that, but as I said earlier, we are looking at every entity. There's a general contractor involved, there is the crane owner involved, there's the crane user, the crane operator, there's the engineer, all of those entities and every other variable in this situation will be looked at and considered.

Question: Is there any indication right now that any of those entities did anything wrong or that they might face a violation?

Commissioner Oddo: Too soon. It's only 48 hours. I don't want to jeopardize the integrity of the process by speaking too soon. Everything is being looked at. Let's do our due diligence. Let's offer folks their due process. Let's look at everything from A to Z. And if we find wrongdoing, we will act as we have in the past, as everyone is aware of post other incidents, particularly 2008.

Moderator: All right. Earlier this week, the administration reached out to New Yorkers asking them to submit questions for the officials that have joined us here today. We will now get to as many of those as we can with the amount of time that we have left. Our first question comes from Pedro in the Bronx for Commissioner Iscol, who asks: During serious heat, are people allowed to open fire hydrants to cool down?

Commissioner Iscol: So, you are, but there's a caveat. So, right now, I think DEP just reported that yesterday we had people, primarily actually in areas of the Bronx open up over 900 fire hydrants. I think it's like about 941 hydrants were open. That creates a dangerous situation where it reduces the water pressure that the fire department needs to fight fires.

So what we ask is, what you can do is you can go to your fire department. If you're over the age of 18, you have an ID, you can get a spray cap, which can be put on the fire hydrant that can allow you to have the benefit of water coming out of the fire hydrant without damaging the water pressure, impacting the water pressure that's needed to fight fires.

Moderator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Joseph in Manhattan for Director Corradi, who asks: Does sidewalk garbage leave a scent of food that draws rodents? Why not have property owners wash sidewalks when garbage is removed?

Corradi: Great question, Joseph. So, rats communicate almost entirely by pheromones, which is a scent trail they leave. The best practice all New Yorkers can take is washing down their curbs with a mix of bleach and water solution, one part bleach to 10 parts water. That could be done daily, weekly, and will help disrupt their pathways, rats pathways to access former food sources.

Moderator: The next question is from Vincent in Staten Island for Commissioner Oddo, who says: There has been scaffolding on my office building for many years. When do these new fines go into effect?

Commissioner Oddo: Well, before I answer the question, let me just say, and I think Deputy Mayor Banks will agree. Any questions from Katie H. from the Rockaways regardless of the topic, Zach, you're going to answer that question.

Vincent from Staten Island, they find me, Staten Island. They always find me. Usually GSD in this administration's stance to get stuff done this time means get sheds down. The mayor and Deputy Mayor Joshi and colleagues, Borough President Levine, Council Members Bottcher and Powers had a press conference on Monday to announce a very robust plan, both carrots and sticks to get sheds down.

Now, the mayor hates rats. The mayor doesn't necessarily hate sheds because sheds are a safety device. The mayor hates sheds that are up unnecessarily. The mayor hates sheds that are up too long. The mayor hates sheds that are drab and not lit well and are attractions for all kinds of quality of life or other more serious nefarious activity. And the reality in this city is there's an economic incentive not to do the underlying work and to leave the shed up.

So we, to answer Vincent's question specifically, we are working with our colleagues in the city council to enact various pieces of legislation that will give us those sticks, that will increase the fines, fines for doing work without a permit, fines for leaving up sheds too long in commercial business districts. These sticks are substantial.

And lastly, at the same time, and maybe even more importantly, we are going to redesign the sheds to a much more aesthetically pleasing look, redesign the sheds that offer more light, more space, and also, at the same time, look at local law 11, which is the facade law that drives the need for at least half of these sheds in the first place. So the legislative process, I can't tell you an exact time, but it will play out over late summer and early fall. And hopefully we'll be getting sheds down as quickly as possible.

Moderator: Thank you. Next question is from Theresa in Queens for Commissioner Iscol, who asks: What is the air quality today?

Commissioner Iscol: So, good question. So we are under a air quality advisory today, looking at an AQI that's forecasted around 108, which is in the unhealthy for sensitive groups. That means primarily children, older adults, people with respiratory or heart conditions should take some precautions.

Moderator: And our final question is from Theresa in Harlem for Director Corradi, who asks: Rats are a huge problem in my neighborhood, and I want to do more than just call 311. What are some things that I can do in my own home to stop rats?

Corradi: Theresa in Harlem, some great news for you. We're hosting a day of action on August 12th on 137th. Come on out. You can connect with educators and partners at Department of Sanitation, Department of Health, and Department of Parks to learn how you can take direct action against rats in addition to flagging via 311 so we could take action as a city.

Moderator: All right. On behalf of the Adams administration, I would like to thank everyone for tuning into today's briefing. We look forward to seeing you all at our next one. Have a great day.