“We hired a rat czar to expand what works and bring a unified strategy to the war on rats so we can ultimately make progress and rid of our city of these diseased rodents.

New York City ranked among the top three rattiest cities in the U.S. in 2024, with an estimated population of 3 million, according to pest control company Orkin.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City will host a September summit on urban rat control, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday. The inaugural National Urban Rat Summit, from Sept. 18 to 19, will ...

In New York on Wednesday, a first-of-its-kind summit was held to focus solely on the problem of rats, and it turns out Chicago has played a positive role when it came to helping combat the Big ...

10-09-2024 DESIGN NYC will never win its war on rats, so it’s settling for a truce ...

That New York is increasingly overrun by rats is something generally agreed upon. In 2021, complaints of rat sightings were up more than two-thirds compared to the same period in 2019.

New York City leaders have been trying to control the rodent population for generations, with mixed results. Sightings of rats in parks, sidewalks and other places in the city have recently ...

The city is preparing to deploy a new weapon in the war on rats: birth control. The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said it will launch a pilot program in which female rats are sterilized a… ...