The New York Times noted wryly that when it came to rats, “There have been 109 mayors of New York and, it seems, nearly as many mayoral plans to snuff out the scourge. Their collective record is ...

But Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat, has been in America for about 250 years. ... It’s possible that the people have changed more than the rats. As New York has gotten wealthier and whiter, ...

New York City is testing new bins to contain the 14 million tons of waste it produces each year. In late June, I was standing ...

Scientists used to think that brown rats arrived around 1776. The new study pushes that date back by more than 35 years. ... Rats are seen in a street in New York, City.

A rat peeks from its hole at a Brooklyn subway stop. By some estimates, rats outnumber the 8.4 million humans in New York City, though it’s impossible to know for sure.

But the brown rat, which likely arrived in New York sometime during the Revolutionary War era, has proven a crafty adversary, thriving despite numerous attempts to eradicate it from the city’s ...

Stock photo of a brown rat. Sightings of the rodents in New York City are reported to be 45 percent down between May and mid-July. Getty/Newsweek ...

This week, New York City crowned Kathleen Corradi its first rat czar. The new position is part of a multipronged approach from city officials. Reporter and New Yorker Anil Oza called up ...

Unlike New York, New Orleans faces a pernicious rat situation because the city is going after not just brown rats, but also black rats. Each place requires a tailored plan to manage its unique set ...

New York City's mayor named its first "rat czar" to tackle the city's rat problem. ... There's brown rats, which is the ones that you see scurrying along the street a lot, ...