Tag: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Maybe no other animal is as hated or as resourceful as the lowly rat. Humanity lives in antagonistic coexistence with rats; we keep coming up with new ways to kill them, and they adapt to whatever we throw at them. In order to develop a deeper understanding of the fight, The Verge’s Josh Dzieza rode […]
Last year, the city Department of Health & Mental Hygiene began a pilot program to combat New York’s rat problem by identifying rat colonies, horrifyingly called “rat reservoirs,” and eradicating them at the source. The program has proven so successful that it’s being expanded to all 5 boroughs and getting a funding increase from $400 […]
East Harlem is so overrun with rats that one man had a disease-ridden rodent climb into his car engine and die, leaving behind an unbearable stench. Third and Lexington avenues along 103rd and 109th streets are known as a rat reservoir, meaning that the area has a chronic and consistent problem with the vermin. Caroline Bragdon is the […]
