Gothamist: Rats Continue to Rule NYC

Not Amused

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 03:07:08 -0500

You are a goofball Shmurf!

Shmurf

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:23:07 -0500

Damn English, & Dutch with there Big Ass rats, and Cockroaches !!! Go the F*ck Home !

Samantha T

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:06:46 -0500

I tend to agree, Mog. I've never seen rats in Boston like I've seen in NYC. I remember moving back to NYC after Boston and being struck immediately by all the trash on the subway tracks and sticking out of the trash cans on the platforms. Sure, NYC has more people, but it also has a huge infrastructure. What is the littering all about in this city?

Mog

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:39:16 -0500

I think the litter and trash clean-up is a good idea. I just moved here a year ago, and I am still surprised by how much people litter in this city. I really don't understand why, it's not this bad in Boston or Philadelphia. Anyways if there was less available food in the form of half-eaten Big Macs lying all over, I think it would help.

Deckard

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:35:58 -0500

I read that Rats book. This summer,after going to a concert along the waterfront, I walked through Eden's Alley as I was heading back to the subway. There were huge rats running around all over the place. Entire chapters from written about Eden's Alley and it's still as bad as Sullivan's book described it in 2002.

Kate

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:32:52 -0500

Interested readers should check out the Bryant Park F/V/B/D station around 7 pm. I see Ratzilla there (on the Queensbound F/V side) about 3 times a week, and she's pretty impressive.

insky

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:36:52 -0500

and there's a nifty new book on pigeons out...

Mike

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:31:34 -0500

Hah, I have the very same rat plushie in my car!

anomalous

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:57:10 -0500

Actually, the rats arrived here on the same ships as the Dutch and English.

Shmurf

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:02:25 -0500

Rats were here long before us . Their like the cockroach, Them bitches are true survivors ! All that poison the MTA has been using over the years isn't working . Although they do have a variety of methods to attack these rodents like poisoning the water they use to drain the system of trash . It still does nothing to stop them form reproducing .

theymademedoit

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:37:16 -0500

Better the rats than the pigeons.

Hungry

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:35:02 -0500

With the ban on tranny-fats, I'll bet some restaurants will resort to serving rat to customers...

Jen

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:26:27 -0500

Thanks for the catch. And I suppose some rats are as big as dogs...

djca

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:19:01 -0500

The city did embark on an aggressive integrated pet management plan... Only in NYC (or Gothamist) are rats considered as pets.