Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

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

The city’s health department conducted fewer restaurant and rodent inspections due to staffing shortages last fiscal year, ...

Earlier this year New York City’s mayor Eric Adams named Kathleen Corradi as the Big Apple’s “rat tsar”. She vowed that New Yorkers would be seeing a lot more of her and considerably fewer ...

The rats of New York City have been put on notice. There will soon be a new sheriff in town. Mayor Eric Adams' office is seeking a "director of rodent mitigation" - or rat tsar, as many are ...

He previously hired a “rat czar,” who earns as much as $180,000 for her help tapering the rodent infestation in NYC. Next up for Adams in his continued battle against the city’s rats is his ...

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 ...

"They're survivors," Barrett admitted. Barrett told me about his efforts during our initiation into the NYC Rat Pack, a newly formed "elite squad of anti-rat activists" created by the mayor's ...

Pest are an issue in New York too. There’s estimated to be 3 ... to deal with the rocketing number of rodents by hiring a ‘rat tsar’. Sam Cabral, a BBC reporter in New York, tells us more.

B-rat summer’s not over yet ... Father Demo Square — one of the five parks included in the trash bin pilot. NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue announced the initiative as part of Mayor ...