Speaking of ships, when rats skittered off of Hessian boats in New York harbor, they discovered “a rat paradise.” They ...

Liman of the Southern District of New York federal court issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday against Transportation ...

“Rats are a very New York City problem,” he said. So when Abreu saw Mahaney’s tweet, he met with the New York City Department of Sanitation to discuss what to do. “The best way to handle ...

New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control. The city says its pilot program goes into effect April 26, distributing ...

Checking in with New York’s rat czar and the progress she has made in reducing the city’s rodent population. By Ginia Bellafante Ginia Bellafante writes the Big City column, a weekly ...

“Anything that causes them stress is good for our work,” New York City rat czar Kathleen Corradi told The New York Times. “A stressed rat is reproducing less. A happy rat is reproducing at a ...

A Harlem lot that has sat vacant for more than a decade has become so infested with rats that city attorneys persuaded a judge to let them in.

New York City kicked off the very first Urban Rat Summit on Wednesday with Mayor Eric Adams declaring "War on Rats" while giving opening remarks for the event. The two-day event is being held at ...