West Side Rag reviewed the number of 3-1-1 service requests about rodents in the 10023, 10024, 10025, and 10069 zip codes.
Read moreWest Side Rag reviewed the number of 3-1-1 service requests about rodents in the 10023, 10024, 10025, and 10069 zip codes.
Read moreHere are two words that you never want to hear at a Community Board 7 meeting: “Rat reservoir.”
Read moreOnce I got over their tails, and that their brethren ate my car, it’s just like having hamsters or guinea pigs -- but many times smarter.
Read more“Thank YOU and have a great day!” I tell the good driver as I descend the deep stairs of the MTA Express bus, knowing that without the ride from this behemoth vehicle and reliable person
Read moreRodents are thriving on the Upper West Side, as evidenced by a deluge of rat complaints this year. In fact, the 10025 zip code ranks number
Read moreThe top sanitation concern on the Upper West Side is that of the rodent population
Read moreFeeling neglected and bounced around by city agencies, residents of an Upper West Side brownstone have been experiencing an ongoing battle with rats right in front of their home.
Read moreAre you walking the sidewalks of the neighborhood a little more nervously since we reported last month that a “Rat-pocalypse” has hit the city, particularly
Read moreRats multiplied in local parks this past summer, but now the city has found a new method to eradicate them: dry ice.
Read moreNew trash cans just arrived in Riverside Park, and they could throw a wrench in the dinner plans of neighborhood rats. The mayor's office and Councilmember Helen Rosenthal funded
Read moreMayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference in the Hippo playground in Riverside Park at West 91st street on Thursday to announce
Read moreThe Department of Sanitation has tripled the frequency of trash pickups at Upper West Side playgrounds to try to drive the rats away
Read moreRats have not just been spreading on the Upper West Side, but all across the country. Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston are
Read moreRats have gotten very frisky this summer, making a home for themselves in and around the playgrounds on the Upper West Side.
Read moreThis hawk at 90th Street and Central Park West on Tuesday must have heard that the Upper West Side has a rat problem, and so
Read moreThe Upper West Side’s rat population appears to be surging, with rodents proliferating in parks and playgrounds, even making some play areas off-limits to kids.
Read moreThe Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District has donated 19 Big Belly garbage receptacles to Theodore Roosevelt Park to help
Read moreMost Upper West Side rats live their ratty lives and die without fanfare. But Rose had higher aspirations. Left on the side of the West Side Highway at 57th street last year
Read moreOctober 19, 2015 Weather: Sunny, with a high of 53 degrees.
Read moreOh pigeon man and pigeon lady, sprinkling your birdseed and bread chunks around the neighborhood. Please look at this photo and consider exactly
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