New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.

Lawmakers are sounding the alarm over a rat poison sold by street vendors in New York City. Push Out, a rodenticide, contains zinc phosphide – which becomes a toxic, potentially ...

Council Woman Susan Zhuang is introducing a measure to help cut down on wait times citywide for 311 complaints, including for issues with rats. Zhuang says the measure was drafted in response to ...

Barrett told me about his efforts during our initiation into the NYC ... rat sightings had gone down in 12 of the previous 13 months and promising that a "massive trash revolution strategy ...

But rats still have a ways to go in winning over everyone. Last week, New York Mayor Eric Adams introduced Kathleen Corradi, a former elementary school teacher and anti-rat activist, as his new ...

This former teacher plans to throw the book at New York City ... of pest control services, Ricky Simeone. Critics suggested it seems redundant to have both a director of rodent mitigation ...