Rats have for long been an unfamous staple of New York City, but their presence has lately ... One pair of rats can breed up to 15,000 specimens in a year.

NEW YORK CITY Adaptable and smart ... In Seattle, where I grew up, the rats excel at climbing sewer pipes—from the inside. Somewhere in my hometown right now, a long, wet Norway rat is poking ...

New York State leads the nation in rat-infested cities with five, including third-ranked New York City. Orkin released its annual rundown of 50 cities where it treated the most places for rodents ...

New York City Mayor ... number has been climbing since 2020, with 24 cases last year, and 6 cases thus far in 2024, the outlet reports. Part of the city’s plan to handle the rat problem includes ...

NEW YORK (WCBS, WLNY) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hosting an inaugural National Urban Rat Summit, gathering leaders from around the country to discuss strategies for winning the war on rats.

More from the Archive Sign up for Classics, a twice-weekly newsletter featuring notable pieces from the past. The rats of New York are quicker ... It can rapidly climb a drapery, a perpendicular ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kenny Bollwerk, creator of "RatTok" and organizer of rat tours in New York City ... the city wanted to meet up and see for themselves how ...

NEW YORK - Amid ongoing efforts to combat rodent populations, New York City is no longer the city with the most rats, according to a report by Orkin. For the tenth consecutive year, Chicago has ...

New York City has a new, highly lethal method for treating rats. But this, like the many methods it's tried to manage rat populations before, might not stop what some predict is a rat-filled future.