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West Village Rats Really Freak Out Residents

2009_05_wvrats.jpg Last week's Page Six item about the rats of Morton Street terrorizing Greenwich Village residents (including Gisele Bundchen!) prompted this Fox 5 report. Aside from choice quotes like "They are ruling the streets," "One night, I saw a rat come across the street, catch a mouse and eat it. It was disgusting. There are rats coming across the street, they're having parties in the street," and "They are like the big, giant disgusting Secret of NIMH rats," neighbors also tells Fox 5, the rats are headquartered at 42 Morton Street: "Acting on complaints, the city Health Department sent out the rat patrol in full force. Inspectors found rat droppings inside the building and told the owner to clean it up or else." Ew (and video is after the jump). Also, per the city, property owners are responsible for keeping rat-free environments while tenants are required to store their garbage properly.

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  • robingee

    How about not having trash everywhere?

  • theLtrain

    Maybe the rats will eat these whiny rich people

  • Kojak

    We should accept the rats as our equals and breed with their females. Then a new hybrid race of Rat/Human will be created and a new dialog between our species will begin which may ultimately lead to Peace and prosperity.

    ... or we could just clean up after ourselves

    Rats will always be a problem because generally, New Yorkers are SLOBS.

  • Mr Mel

    "We should accept the rats as our equals and breed with their females."

    Under those conditions don't expect a lot of Volunteers, you'll have to pay them.

  • Snoopy

    If the city never closed down the KFC on Sixth Avenue in the Village this problem would never had occurred.

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