New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.

Council Woman Susan Zhuang is introducing a measure to help cut down on wait times citywide for 311 complaints, including for issues with rats. Zhuang says the measure was drafted in response to ...

tremors New York City officials have tried multiple ways to decrease the rat population, from dealing with garbage and treating rat-prone areas with birth control to flooding rat tunnels with ...

Barrett told me about his efforts during our initiation into the NYC ... rat sightings had gone down in 12 of the previous 13 months and promising that a "massive trash revolution strategy ...