It has bluish-black fur, a pointed nose, and big ears. It is cleaner and not as fierce as the brown rat but more suspicious and harder to trap. It is an acrobatic beast. It can rapidly climb a ...

But one way the city tracks the fight against rats is by calls to 311. The downward numbers are a sign, Corradi said, that ...

Scientists did not understand how the disease was transmitted but had long theorized that rats played a role.

NEW YORK -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams is hosting an inaugural National Urban Rat Summit, gathering leaders from around ...