There's a trendy new T-shirt that's reminding New Yorkers who runs the city. The inspiration came straight from the head of the city's Sanitation Department. "But the rats don't run this city. We do," ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — In a city long teeming with rats, both literal and metaphorical, Scabby the Rat stood apart. The enormous balloon rodent loomed large on the streets of New York and across the country, with ...