Several videos have been doing rounds on social media claiming that to address NYC's rat problem, residents have started roasting rats. The short-duration clips shot in some random settings...

2022年12月6日 · One way to defeat the rats is to cook them and eat them. That could be exactly what some people are doing. A video surfaced on Twitter of what looked like a woman barbequing rats on the sidewalk. She even appeared to be spinning them like they are rotisserie chickens.

2023年10月13日 · A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at 59th Street station on May 8, 2023, in New York City; and its new nemesis, Kathleen Corradi, the city's first "rat czar," seen on...

Most cities, especially the City of New York, are infested with rats. While this scares and disgusts most, one migrant did something about it. He caught some rats and put them on the grill,...

2021年12月16日 · Diem Boyd was sitting outside a restaurant in New York's fashionable Greenwich Village in September, when a family of rats scurried across her feet. "Within seconds everybody jumped up," she...

2022年8月8日 · But several rat experts interviewed by Streetsblog say that outdoor dining is merely a small factor in the recent rat spottings — the city's got much bigger fish to fry when it comes to mitigating its rodent infestation, like how the city disposes of its trash in thin, leaking, smelly garbage bags that line the sidewalks for blocks, creating ...

12 小时之前 · On Friday, Gov. Hochul announced all live markets in New York City as well as Weschester County and Long Island would be shuttered for a week after inspectors discovered seven cases of avian flu ...

4 天之前 · New York City is getting rattier, thanks to climate change. That’s a takeaway from a new study, which found cities that warmed the most saw the largest hikes in rat populations.. Using data from public rat sightings and inspections between 2007 and 2024, the researchers examined 16 cities around the world and found two-thirds saw increases in rat populations.

City inspectors from the NYC Department of Health and Mental hygiene report that rodent activities in the city doubled from 30,000 in 2021 to 60,000 in 2022, according to NBC New York. Rodents are the leading cause of food business failure in the city. Like other pests, rats carry and spread dangerous disease-causing bacteria.

3 天之前 · Using data from public rat sightings and inspections between 2007 and 2024, researchers examined 16 cities around the world and found two-thirds saw increases in rat populations. New York City saw the fourth-highest spike in rats. It's the first study to use data to link rates to warming temperatures.