Just like their human neighbors, the rats of New York City have their own distinctive vocalizations, or “accent”, something akin to an urban dialect shaped by the chaos of noisy subways, busy ...

New York City is home to some three million rats, and learning how these rodent residents navigate and communicate is vital to understanding their impact on humans. A new preprint shows attempts to ...

New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, leaving some residents afraid to let their children walk on sidewalks. Faced ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- New York City's war on rats is about to heat up. Mayor Bill de Blasio is expanding a rat removal program in his new budget. The mayor is planning to devote close to $3 million to ...

This week’s frigid weather has many New York City residents shivering, scurrying into cozy spots and feeling sapped. Including the rats. The United States’ most populous city has been spared the Upper ...

Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and ...

NEW YORK — In a city long teeming with rats, both literal and metaphorical, Scabby the Rat stood apart. The enormous balloon rodent loomed large on the streets of New York and across the country, with ...

City data actually suggest that rat sightings are declining. But horror stories are everywhere, and a single rat in a stroller is enough to set off a panic. By Christopher Maag Rachel Chase, a ...

New York Mayor Eric Adams has waged a years-long campaign against the city’s rats, dubbing them “public enemy number one” and even appointing a “rat czar” to tackle the problem in 2023. But with the ...