When WPIX headed out to cover a reported rat convergence around Grand Army Plaza, they found their fair amount of freaked out locals. But in between the shrieks and fear of disease and worry that the cold weather will send even more rats out of the woods, Cynthia Chatman said it's high time everyone just deal. "Well that's the way New York is," she said. "What are you going to do? There are a lot of rats here!" And eventually they're all going to get killed by the opossums anyway, so it's really no biggie.
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