Mayor Eric Adams’ administration says it’s hiring new teams to exterminate rats from tunnels under trees on the street.

These drivers are in for rat-ical change. West Harlem has become the first neighborhood in the United States to have all of its trash containerized in order to squash uptown rats’ curbside trash ...

The takeaway is that DC, San Francisco, Toronto, and New York City have seen a surge in sightings over the last several years, whereas rat sightings in New Orleans and Tokyo have dropped ...

NYC has invested $877,000 in a task force to eradicate rats using carbon monoxide in tree beds, aiming for a significant kill ...

Containerization WORKS, and there is no reason that other cities can have it and New York can’t.” The pilot program, which spans Manhattan’s Community Board 9, includes 1,100 on-street ...

A group of Trump-loving devotees of classical architecture are making headway on rebuilding New York’s central train station.

Al fresco eating exploded in New York during Covid, creating a landscape of makeshift shacks and a new set of problems which city regulators are only now getting under control. But not everyone’s ...

As part of a growing campaign to reclaim public space, New York City is deploying new rodent-fighting teams to root out ...

Rat sightings have been steadily increasing since New York City began reopening after its months-long stay-in-place, when complaints to 311 reached record lows.

Hundreds of “Empire Bins” designed to get residential waste off of city streets were installed in Harlem this year. Kevin C Downs for The New York Post ...

Joseph Mitchell writes about New York’s rats, whose population increased during the Second World War, and speaks to various experts about the creatures’ habits and the difficulties of ...