Gothamist: Rats in the City

abraham brown

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:41:38 -0500

what is a shame is people throw food every where on the ground espasauly in train stations and are so many garbage cans.

dlocal

Fri, 07 May 2004 17:59:33 -0500

The Rats are so big in NYC the cats carry machine guns.

Frank

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:04:44 -0500

Oh my -- repressed Allston memories coming back to me -- Kristen is sooooo right on. I have seen both the Allston rats and the New York rats. While neither are welcome, NYC rats are nothin' compared to those Beantown "bunnies". The first time I saw one, I swore it was a possum. It was exactly the size of a possum--about the size of a well-fed housecat. I still get the shivers when I think of that nasty thing.

kristen

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:05:46 -0500

i lived in new york for 2 years. then i moved to the ghetto college neighborhood of Boston: Allston. While New York may win the prize for largest population of rats, Allston wins for size! you need to see these things. they dwarf any new york rat. i found that it helped to refer to them as 'bunnies.' It diminished their foulness a bit.

emjaybee

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:47:27 -0500

Walking home in Hell's Kitchen Sat night, we saw a rat scurry across the sidewalk into a building...then two more...then four more...then ten more. It was a rat family reunion! They were all different sizes, too. This other girl watching the rat crossing from further down the side walk was shrieking, but I was just glad I didn't live in that particular building. And glad I have a large, ferocious cat who has really enjoyed killing rodents in the past and wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Still...that was a lot of rats.

joe s

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:53:03 -0500

Sullivan's book about the Meadowlands was really enjoyable. I'm looking forward to reading about the rats.

krucoff

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:12:02 -0500

my sources in bay ridge tell me they call the really big ones "ratcoons"

matt

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:06:42 -0500

Don't give all rats a bad name. I've had pet rats for years and they are some of the best pets I have ever had. Of course, I did not just adopt them off of the street, now that would be scary.

Kojak

Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:17:52 -0500

Did you know for every Person in NYC, there are 10 Rats . . . . . 80 Million Rats in NY alone . . . spooky