Hit the rodent, Jack!
A Queens candidate for City Council is suing the BB King Blues Club & Grill, saying she was bitten by a rat as she watched a Ray Charles tribute concert at the Times Square nightclub.
Andrea Veras, 56, was celebrating her birthday with friends in September 2011 when “she was suddenly and violent bitten by a large rodent while seated in the patron seating area,” the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit claims.
“She started feeling something where her foot was. As they looked down with their cell phones to illuminate the ground they saw a giant rat and she was bleeding,” her attorney, Peter Panas, told The Post.
Panas described the biter as “a classic Norway rat.” Veras was wearing sandals and it broke the skin on her bare toe, he said.
The avid Brother Ray fan went to the doctor for the ensuing infection and fever, and was given seven days of antibiotics, her suit states.
Veras, who last month announced she was running for the council seat being vacated next year by the term-limited James Gennaro, still suffers “great physical pain, mental anguish, and expense,” from the rat attack, according to court papers.
The Legal Aid secretary works in Manhattan, and lives in Briarwood. She reported the incident to a club manager named Jonathan, who took a statement, but she was forced to file the lawsuit after the club ignored further communication, her attorney said.
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill denied the allegations.
The club has a “B” letter grade from the city’s Health Department. Two weeks after the rat incident the club racked up 12 sanitary violations including one that read “facility not vermin proof…conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.”
The report also noted “evidence of mice or live mice present in the facility’s food and/or non-food areas.”
Veras is seeking unspecified damages.
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