Blaz vows $600G to fight ticks

Welcome to Staten Island — now tuck your socks into your pants.

Mayor de Blasio kicked off his second installment of City Hall in Your Borough on Staten Island, the borough with the highest number of Lyme disease cases, with a lesson in how to avoid ticks and the debilitating illnesses they can cause in those who are bitten.

“This is a very serious disease with really last impact on people, and we've got to take it seriously, and we've got to fight it every way we can,” de Blasio said at Blue Heron Park on Staten Island. “One bite from one of these ticks can change someone's life, really, for the worse.”

Most New York City residents who contract Lyme catch it out of town — but that's not so on Staten Island, where between 50% and 60% of those who contract it do so in the borough.

To combat the ticks, de Blasio said his administration will spend an extra $600,000 on a multi-faceted approach to controlling them.