"Two rats in a given year can reproduce 15,000 descendants," New York City Councilmember Shaun Abreu said. "We have to go at the source." As chair of the sanitation committee, he led the successful ...

Dave Carlin has covered major national news stories and events in the past four decades including Superstorm Sandy and its tri-state impacts, Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina and Iniki on Kauai, ...

Mayor Eric Adams claimed Tuesday that the city’s legions of rats are “really running scared’’ because of his efforts to thwart them — while a City Hall poster bizarrely touted him as the bald-headed ...