Hit the rodent, Jack!
A Queens candidate for City Council is suing the B.B. 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 violently bitten” on her foot, the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit claims.
When she used her cellphone to illuminate the ground, she “saw a giant rat and she was bleeding,” said her attorney, Peter Panas.
Veras, a Legal Aid secretary who works in Manhattan and lives in Briarwood, Queens, says she reported the incident to a club manager. When that got her nowhere, she filed suit, her attorney said.
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill denied the allegations.
The club has a “B” grade from the city’s Health Department.
Two weeks after the alleged rat incident, the club racked up 12 sanitation violations including one that read: “facility not vermin proof . . . conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.”
— Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan