Eric Adams is served summons after rat infestation at HIS Brooklyn townhouse

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was served a summon for a rat infestation at the Brooklyn home where he lives with his son. 

Adams' record showed an unpaid summons penalty for $330 that he received in May - after it was found that his Bedford Stuyvesant home is flooded with the rodents.

The mayor declared a war on city rats last week when he posted a job searching for what he called the Big Apples 'Rat Czar,' more formally known as Citywide Director of Rodent Mitigation.

'There's nothing I hate more than rats,' he said last week while advertising the new job posting. 

This comes after Jessica Tisch, Department of Sanitation's commissioner,  sensationally said last month: 'The rats don’t run this city, we do.' 

Mayor Eric Adams will appear in court next week after receiving a $330 fine when it was found his Brooklyn home is infested with rat

Adams' home is seen on Lafayette Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. He lives in the basement and rents out the other two floors, he said, to fund his son's college education

Adams appears to be fighting rats in his own home and throughout the city. Pictured: a rat in the subway 

Adams was supposed to appear in court in June but rescheduled his hearing to next week. He can pay up to a $600 penalty.

He appeared to be tackling his rat issues by putting rat traps around his home, photos obtained by New York Daily News showed. 

Bags of trash also sat in front of his home outside of two filled garbage cans - which may not have helped his growing rat issue.

The mayor's Brooklyn neighborhood is known to have rat issues and has been treating the problems with the help of the Department of Health. 

While Adams is set to appear in court next week, he has 'spent thousands of dollars to remediate [the] infestation at his residence in Brooklyn earlier this year,' a spokesperson for the mayor told the Daily News.

But records showed that Adams failed to address the infestation. 

Adams' Brooklyn neighbors said rats are a massive issue on the block due to trash bags on the streets and construction.

'Every night you're dodging rats,' Meredith Rogers said.

The mayor said he lives in the basement of the property with his son and rents out the upper levels. 

The mayor previously said he hated nothing more than rats. He is currently searching for someone to handle the city's rat infestation

The mayor's Brooklyn neighborhood is known to have rat issues and has been treating the issue through the help of the Department of Health

Adam's home serves as a partial rental property. The mayor previously failed to list his home as a rental and critics have accused him of actually living in New Jersey with his girlfriend Tracey Collins. 

He previously debunked the claims last year - before he became mayor - when he took reporters into his Brooklyn home and showed them his scruffily-made bed and creaking floors.

The mayor said he lived in the basement and rents out the floors above to pay for his son Jordan's college fees.

Adams is registered to vote on the first floor, yet a tenant who has lived there for years is listed under the same unit in multiple documents obtained by Politico last year.

His neighbors also previously said they didn't know Adam's lived on their block. 

Adams invited reporters to tour his basement home in Brooklyn last year, in a bid to prove that he actually lived in the city - rather than in New Jersey

At the time, Adams was the president of the borough of Brooklyn. He staged a press conference, beside his son, Jordan, 25, to insist that he did live in the property

Adam's rat issue extends outside of his home and into the streets of New York. Last week, he launched his job search for a rodent mitigation specialist. 

The job, which pays between $120,000 to $170,000, is being listed for anyone with a background in urban planning, project management, or government work, but it seems the Democratic mayor wants someone with a flair for the position.

A city councilmember told CBS that the city has had a 71 percent increase in rat sightings since 2020.

Adams held a press conference in October where he said that 'fighting rats' was up there with crime and inequality as what he was focused on in his attempt to make New York a livable city. 

The rat hunting job description explained the job as doing 'the impossible' in stopping the city's rats.

It also suggests you have a: 'swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor and general aura of badassery.' A knowledge of PowerPoint is also necessary.

There's a dark side to the position, however, as it says that you'll need 'stamina and stagecraft' and that 'the ideal candidate is highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty.'

The posting notes: 'Despite their successful public engagement strategy and cheeky social media presence, rats are not our friends. Rodents spread disease, damage homes and wiring and even attempt to control the movements of kitchen staffers in an effort to take over human jobs.'

Adams is seeking to pay a rat hunter more than $120,000 to help rid of the rodents in the city 

Adams held a press conference in October where he said that 'fighting rats' was up there with crime and inequality as what he was focused on in his attempt to make New York a livable city

This is perhaps a reference to a time when rats are seen chowing down on everything from pizza, and bagels to the salad that went viral online.

The first rodent to take social media by storm for its larger-than-life appetite was Pizza Rat.

In September 2015, New Yorkers were amazed when footage emerged of it carrying an entire large slice of pizza down the steps of a subway station.

Despite the slice being bigger than it, the rat managed to drag it down several stairs before it was forced to admit defeat.

The video clip of its valiant effort went viral.