New Yorkers have plenty of reasons to be skeptical of Eric Adams as mayor. A year after mass protests calling to defund the police, we’re set to elect a cop to lead the city. He seems to play fast and ...

In 1839, the naturalist John Jay Audobon was granted permission by Mayor Isaac Varian to begin shooting rats he spotted along the Battery. In the 1960s, following a series of nest-shaking tenement ...

Shocking but true: It's been just one week, one week exactly, since Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams debuted his pioneering rat extermination plan. Surely you have not managed to wipe the rat ...

If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth ...

NEW YORK – New York City's long war against a rising rat population could soon feature a new weapon—a trap that drowns the rodents in a solution with alcohol, reports the New York Post. Brooklyn ...