A group of about ten volunteers have spent the last couple of weeks rounding up the domesticated white rodents ...

Animal rescue volunteers are urgently seeking new homes for hundreds of pet rats discovered running wild in a condemned, ...

ABC New York reports that Rocky Point home has been condemned, and its 48-year-old owner arrested after animal rescue ...

Editor’s note: The video aired on April 13 after Katie Corradi was appointed as the New York City rat czar. NEW YORK (PIX11) — New York City will have to continue its ‘War on Rats’ without one of its ...

Central Park is turning into a squeak show. New York City is losing the rat war in the iconic green space — where the vermin are so brazen, they routinely raid baby strollers for snacks at a besieged ...

New York City will likely pay $2 billion to settle claims that the nation's largest public housing agency has too often left tenants to contend with lead paint, malfunctioning elevators and rats. The ...

A tour guide goes one step beyond, a macaw on the Q and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.

Are you squeakin’ at me? Big Apple rats are just as social as some New Yorkers — and even sound like them, speaking to each other with a distinctive accent, a new study found. “Being social helps them ...