I’m sure any business owner would get pleasure in seeing the rat deflate,” said one former prominent restaurateur who’d once been the target of the rat.

The giant, inflatable rat that was stabbed outside the upscale Babbo restaurant in Manhattan this week is getting patched up ...

For ages, rats have been a growing problem in places like New York City. Now, one "rat guru" is working to help the city curb ...

In a city that never sleeps—and never seems to run out of rats—Suzanne Reisman has found her calling. Her “Garbage & Rats in ...

Legend has it that there's a rat for every person, more than eight million in total. The most recent popular estimate was around two million. But no one knows.

For decades, New York sidewalks were awash in piled-up black plastic rubbish bags, some of which doubled as housing projects for the city’s other inhabitants. “I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York ...