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

The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation provides rodent abatement free of charge to residents. The Bureau of Rodent ...

Members of Boston's Public Works Department and the Inspectional Services team will be heading to New York for a "rat summit.

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 ...

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

I’m intimately familiar with New York City rats, and so is Suzanne Vega (stars: they’re just like us). On a separate note, Vega is also apparently a Fontaines D.C. fan.

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 ...

The event on Wednesday and Thursday will feature municipal rodent control experts and pest researchers from as far afield as New Orleans and British Columbia. “We are giving rats the boot ...

His work has previously appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, ESPN ... after suffering more than 50 untreated rat bites at the family’s dilapidated house last year in 2023.

A New York Times article Thursday highlighted a lucrative side hustle that is emblematic of the times we live in: gaming ...