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Rats! NYC Mayor Eric Adams Ticketed for Rodents at His Brooklyn Townhouse Again
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.
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Cited for Rat Infestation at Brooklyn Home
Mayor Adams’ rat problems continue. John Chandler reports.
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NYC Mayor's $300 Fine for Rat Infestation Is Dismissed
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...
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NYC Job Listing Pushes 6-Figure Salary for ‘Somewhat Bloodthirsty' Rat Czar
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.
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New York City Looking For a ‘Bloodthirsty' Rat Czar to Tackle Rodent Problem
This comes after the officials passed legislation in an attempt to mitigate a rat problem throughout the City, Andrew Siff reports.
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‘Rats Don't Run This City' T-Shirt Being Sold After Statement Goes Viral on Tik Tok
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...
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NYC Mayor Signs ‘Rat Action Plan' to Fight Rodents and Clean Up Streets
The “Rat Action Plan” includes four anti-rat bills meant to crackdown on rats in the city, Andrew Siff reports.
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NYC War on Rats: Can 4 New Rodent Laws Fix the Crisis?
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.
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‘Get Stuff Clean' Initiative Begins in NYC
Crews from the department of sanitation began tackling neglected locations of trash in NYC on Monday. Adam Kuperstein reports.
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Live in an NYC ‘No Man' Zone? More Than 1,000 Targeted in Bid to Fix Trash Trouble
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…
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New NYC Trash Initiative Launches Monday: What to Expect
Sanitation crews hit NYC streets in a new push to “Get Stuff Clean.” Will it work? Tracie Strahan reports.
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NYC Agencies Played Hot Potato for Years, Leaving Huge Swaths of City Dirty
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...
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NYC Mayor to Focus on Cleaner Streets With 200 New Sanitation Hires
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.
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El Minuto 10/28 English Edition
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.
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NYC Rat Wars: You May Soon Find Yourself in an Official Rodent Mitigation Zone
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.
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NYC Passes New Bills Aimed at Rats
The City Council voted to mandate the City to create formal rat mitigation zones, Erica Byfield reports.
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These Are the ‘Rattiest' Cities in America — and Somehow NYC Is Still Not #1
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.
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NYC Trash Pickup Is Getting a Major Overhaul — And Your Routine Will Have to Change, Too
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…
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Rats' Behavior Changed After Human Tissue Was Inserted Into Their Brains, Research Finds
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.
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More Rat Sightings in NYC Than Ever Before, Data Shows, To Surprise of No One
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.