These enticingly flavored bait blocks are placed outside of buildings, in small black boxes that only rats and mice can enter. But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies, threatening larger ...

“We can’t poison our way out of this, we cannot kill our way out of this,” Council member Shaun Abreu said while first introducing the bill in April. New York City’s rats will be dosed ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem.

NEW YORK (Gray News) - The New York City Council passed a bill that will put rats on birth control. According to the bill, a ...

Flaco captured the hearts of New Yorkers last year by escaping from the city's zoo and staying at liberty for a year before being found dead in February with rat poison in his system. New York ...

Renters and owners can contact the city for assistance with rat burrows. The department uses poison to kill rats in their burrows, Gallup said. But it treats only rat burrows that are at least 10 ...