Tourists won’t be the only thing hogging the Big Apple sidewalks this summer. When people think of New York City rats, they ...

At-large Councilmember Christina Henderson said the process will be gradual, and high-traffic areas will be prioritized.

Employees of a business in Brownsville are fed up, saying they're dealing with a rat problem with trash piling up on their property. Employees at Coney Island Auto Parts say the garbage is coming from ...

Seeing a rat may send chills down your spine, but sometimes you can't avoid them. There are places where you might encounter more rats more frequently, though, and they made Yelp's "Infestation Index.

Waste is a terrible thing to mind. Just ask Dominick Romeo. Other than a few building superintendents and extremely close followers of city politics, nobody noticed that the West 18th street resident ...

New York City's so-called rat czar has scurried away after a quiet-as-a-mouse tenure that was largely overtaken by trash. Kathleen Corradi, the citywide director of rodent mitigation, departed from ...

A year ago, the city of Boston met with other rat plagued cities to try to learn from each other on how best to tackle the problem. Now a year later, it's still commonplace to see bags of trash piled ...