Rats

White waste management sanitation garbage truck and worker pushing wheeled green dumpster on street with piles of trash bags.

Parked Cars Hamper NYC Trash Containerization Effort

Sanitation workers must manually collect bags from containers blocked by parked cars, slowing a process that is meant to be safer and more efficient.

December 3, 2024 - StreetsBlog NYC

Squirrel

The Fascinating World of Urban Evolution

Animals are not only evolving in remarkable ways to meet the challenges of urban environments, but they are doing it quickly.

October 4, 2019 - Wired

Vermin Graffiti

Looking for Gentrification? Follow the Rat Complaints

A surprising number of puns get squeezed into an article rat complaints as a better harbinger of gentrification than...rats.

May 26, 2019 - The Concourse

Vermin Graffiti

New Yorkers Have More Complaints About Rats

New Yorkers are ratting out rats.

June 16, 2018 - The Wall Street Journal [paywall]

vermin

NIMBYs, but for Rats

Neighborhood groups around Detroit are taking the city's rat problem into their owns hands.

January 31, 2018 - HometownLife

Vermin Graffiti

New York City to Invest $32 Million in its Rat Problem

Clean and safe from rats.

July 14, 2017 - Smart Cities Dive

Friday Funny: It Doesn't Get More New York Than Pizza Rat, Brooklyn Settler

The streets of New York lived up to their infamous reputation this week with two viral videos that seemed almost too perfect.

September 25, 2015 - The New Yorker

Rat Race

Ranking the Cities with the Largest Rat Problem

Some cities have a reputation for rats, but all cities have them. Where does your major metropolitan center rank among the rattiest cities?

October 23, 2014 - Urbanful

"Don't Sleep In The Subway, Darling"....or else

No, this is not a video of Petula Clark, but do take her message to heart. Rats are not just on the subway tracks - occasionally they hop a ride too, so riders beware - stay awake! Caught on tape...

January 18, 2011 - NY1/You-Tube

District of Rats

Washington D.C. has successfully invested more than $600 million in a new baseball stadium, but the city's infamous infestation with rats is nowhere near resolved. Reason's Matt Welch asks why.

May 12, 2008 - Reason

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