The boss is never going to believe this one: A report just came in over the police scanners about an "unusual occurrence" in a parking lot at East 128th Street between Park and Lex, where police have been summoned because "people are unable to get to their cars due to 10-15 very large rats in the parking lot." And so it begins; the day we've all dreaded when a master race of rats form organized battalions to take over the city once and for all. Well, Gothamist, for one, welcomes our new rodent overlords, and we look forward to seeing them show the current administration how real rats run a city. Viva la Rat! more ›

A new report in the Journal of Medical Entomology has confirmed our worst fears: Big Apple bed bugs have developed nerve cell mutations that make them almost impervious to pyrethroid toxins, such as deltamethrin, commonly used against them. Toxicologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Korea's Seoul National University have conducted extensive tests on the resilient bastards, and it appears that New York City bed bugs are now as much as 264 times more resistant to deltamethrin than easier to kill bugs in Florida. Of course, Florida is where bed bugs retire to suck blood in their old age, so it figures they'd have a higher mortality rate there. But up here, they've totally gone rogue, and the Times editorial board is calling for "a task force to figure out how to stay ahead of an army that seems to be growing every year." more ›