New York City began the very first "Urban Rat Summit" in history on Wednesday with Mayor Eric Adams leading opening remarks ...

Adams’ war on rats began long before his political career. His animosity towards rodents is rooted in his childhood, spent in ...

Adams spoke about the large number of people attending the inaugural National Urban Rat Summit in New York. He said rats ...

The truth is you give an inch back, they'll take a mile. There's no definitive count of the rat populace in New York, though one recent estimate placed it at about 3 million. Various mayors ...

NEW YORK — Rats are an all-too-familiar sight in New ... fined for rats she reported running out of sewers, despite the hundreds of dollars she spent on extermination services.

The receptacles are just one example of the Eric Adams administration’s efforts to control the infamous rat population of New York City. “New Yorkers may not know this about me — but I ...

NEW YORK-- New York City is throwing millions of dollars at its rodent problem-- from studies on the best ways to store trash, to a rat czar appointed last year. So why are rodent-related ...

Over the next two hours, participants watched a crash course slideshow about the Norway rat, New York City's most common rat breed. One slide detailed the rats’ subterranean paths, from the ...

Despite their pervasiveness, the common brown rats you see scurrying around subway tracks and garbage bags aren’t native to New York. According to a plaque on this monument that popped up in The ...

“You’re joking! I totally fell for it.” The truth is: Katz never existed and, unfortunately, New York City’s rat plague can’t ...

But we all knew what was at stake, because in a very short time spent in New York you realize which animal is the most common sight here. The rat, the big problem of the "Big Apple", brought to ...