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New York City Mayor Eric Adams vowed Wednesday to fight his own City Hall — again — after he was ticketed for rats at his Brooklyn townhouse.

Mayor Adams’ rat problems continue. John Chandler reports.

New York City’s mayor has beaten the rat rap. Days after Mayor Eric Adams appeared remotely at a city administrative hearing to contest a $300 fine for a rat infestation at a townhouse he owns, the fine was dismissed. Adams said Tuesday that he had spent thousands of dollars on rat mitigation efforts. The hearing officer was satisfied, and the...

Hate rats? Are you a “somewhat bloodthirsty” New Yorker with excellent communication skills and “a general aura of badassery”? Then you might have what it takes to be the city’s new rat czar.

This comes after the officials passed legislation in an attempt to mitigate a rat problem throughout the City, Andrew Siff reports.

There’s a trendy new T-shirt that’s reminding New Yorkers who runs the city. The inspiration came straight from the head of the city’s Sanitation Department. “But the rats don’t run this city. We do,” Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch said a few weeks ago while laying out the city’s plan to crack down on rodents. The statement went viral on...

The “Rat Action Plan” includes four anti-rat bills meant to crackdown on rats in the city, Andrew Siff reports.

The New York City Council is embracing a new strategy in an effort to rid the city of its rat problem — and it could change the way residents toss away their trash.

Crews from the department of sanitation began tackling neglected locations of trash in NYC on Monday. Adam Kuperstein reports.

New York City unleashed its latest weapon in its ongoing trash — and rat — battle, deploying 200 more sanitation workers to streets as the mayor’s office vows anew to address oft-complained-about blights. Starting Monday, the city begins directly targeting more than 1,000 identified “no man’s lands” across the five boroughs — zones determined to be neglected and overrun with…

Sanitation crews hit NYC streets in a new push to “Get Stuff Clean.” Will it work? Tracie Strahan reports.

New York City’s trash problem feels reminiscent of a bad group project: no one wants to step up and take responsibility for the work, but there’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around. On Thursday, four of the city’s agencies in charge of its upkeep promised to deliver on a new strategy to tackle the trash mess and share the...

The New York City Department of Sanitation is focusing on more than a thousand areas across the city that have been neglected, Andrew Siff reports.

The New York City Council is embracing a new strategy in an effort to rid the city of its rat problem — and it could change the way residents toss away their trash.

The New York City Council is embracing a new strategy in an effort to rid the city of its rat problem — and it could change the way residents toss away their trash.

The City Council voted to mandate the City to create formal rat mitigation zones, Erica Byfield reports.

Pest control company Orkin released its list of the “rattiest” cities in the U.S., and while NYC did move up the list (not a list anyone wants to move up, mind you), a different has captured the crown eight years in a row.

Rats are running rampant in New York City like never before — and faced with ongoing complaints across the five boroughs, Mayor Eric Adams announced a new plan Monday: You’ll have to start putting your garbage out later. As it stands, NYC residents have been able to put out trash for pickup the next morning starting at 4 p.m. That…

Seven years ago, researchers at Stanford University started an ambitious experiment: They began growing miniature, simplified versions of the human brain from stem cells inside a lab, then later injected that tissue into the brains of newborn rats.

According to new government data, rat sightings across the city have increased 71 percent since this time in 2020. By the end of September, there were more than 21,000 reported sightings.