The city's growing rat population was the topic of discussion at a meeting in Brooklyn Thursday night.

Borough President Eric Adams hosted the first ever "rat summit" in Bedford-Stuyvesant, with officials from the Health, Buildings and Sanitation Departments.

Residents got to sound off about rats at the meeting.

The city says property owners are responsible for rat control and face fines if they don't comply.

But Adams says the city needs to do more exterminating.

“In order to fine someone it should be because of a serious violation that feeds rats. It should not be because a rat created a burrow somewhere or we saw a dropping somewhere. That needs to stop," Adams noted.

City officials say some Brooklyn neighborhoods are seeing more rats because of all the development that forces the rodents from their homes underground.