The city's newest rat-fighting measure: hard-sided trash bins with secure lids.
Read moreDetailsThe city's newest rat-fighting measure: hard-sided trash bins with secure lids.
Read moreDetailsWest Side Rag reviewed the number of 3-1-1 service requests about rodents in the 10023, 10024, 10025, and 10069 zip codes.
Read moreDetailsHere are two words that you never want to hear at a Community Board 7 meeting: “Rat reservoir.”
Read moreDetailsOnce 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 moreDetails“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 moreDetailsRodents 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 moreDetailsThe top sanitation concern on the Upper West Side is that of the rodent population
Read moreDetailsFeeling 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 moreDetailsAre 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 moreDetailsRats multiplied in local parks this past summer, but now the city has found a new method to eradicate them: dry ice.
Read moreDetailsNew 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 moreDetailsMayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference in the Hippo playground in Riverside Park at West 91st street on Thursday to announce
Read moreDetailsThe Department of Sanitation has tripled the frequency of trash pickups at Upper West Side playgrounds to try to drive the rats away
Read moreDetailsRats have not just been spreading on the Upper West Side, but all across the country. Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston are
Read moreDetailsRats have gotten very frisky this summer, making a home for themselves in and around the playgrounds on the Upper West Side.
Read moreDetailsThis 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 moreDetailsThe 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 moreDetailsThe Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District has donated 19 Big Belly garbage receptacles to Theodore Roosevelt Park to help
Read moreDetailsMost 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 moreDetailsOctober 19, 2015 Weather: Sunny, with a high of 53 degrees.
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