An epic battle between two rats fighting over a bagel was caught on video at the 14 Street A-train station, but as you’ll see, a super heavyweight contender spoiled the final round. (Video: dannyrockett/YouTube)
When several employees at the New York Times received “holiday goodies” in packages that looked like they had been tampered with, the paper did some investigating and found out they had… by rodents. A post office employee who worked at the facility where the parcels were sorted admitted they have a rat problem, especially during the holidays. Nasty! (Photo: Richard Perry/New York Times)
The MTA has a huge problem on its hands. Because the transit agency spends money like a crack-whore, mostly to cover its immense debt habit, they won’t hire enough workers to timely cart away all the trash, which according to the Daily News tops over 8,500 bags a day. This leads to huge pileups of garbage and that attracts rats. Read more »
That was the message delivered to the MTA on Wednesday by the vice president of the Transport Workers Union. “People have a right not to be terrorized by biological terrorism, and that’s what these rats are,” said Maurice Jenkins, about the increasing threat the disease-carrying rodents are creating in the subways. Read more »
A group of giant rats has invaded Marcy Projects and one man is fighting back. A Housing Authority worker named Jose Rivera speared one of rodents with a pitchfork this week, which makes him the ghetto warrior of the year. The rats are about three feet long and have supposedly lived there for six years. The New York Daily News interviewed a woman who said that the rat pack tends to “get together and gang up on the cats.” This is the stuff nightmares are made of.
A mysterious white rat that has been frolicking about in Tompkins Square Park made its first daytime appearance yesterday and we thought you should know. Maybe this guy’s missing one?
Here’s some statistical perspective for all those nauseating subway rat encounter videos: 100 New Yorkers get bit by rats a year on average, but only 29 bites were reported so far this year, according to NYC’s Health Department. Are we getting less delicious? Read more »
While waiting for the F train at the Herald Square Station last night, a regulation-sized rat-bastard started scurrying around the platform, mostly to the amusement of those it briefly encountered. Watch it play. Read more »
Historically, rats have always been a fixture of the city’s transit system, but they were mostly confined to socially acceptable places like anywhere out of sight or on the tracks below. Read more »
Acting on a tip from what sounds like the cameraman and his buddy, a cop drives out a subway rat from its hiding spot on the Metropolitan Av-Grand St platform with a whistle in this YouTube video. After getting caught in a brief pickle with bystanders determined to get a photo of it, the rodent scampers away back to where it belongs… out of sight!
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