NEW YORK (PIX11) -- New York City is winning the war on rats, according to the Department of Sanitation and Mayor Eric Adams' administration.
Rat sighting complaints in the city's "rat mitigation zones" last year decreased by 20%, according to Adams' office.
“When we came into office, we made it clear out with the mean streets and in with the clean streets,” Adams said in a statement last Thursday. “We’re building a city where New Yorkers won’t have to dodge rats or tiptoe around mountains of smelly black bags anymore.”
The Admas administration attributed its success to a new pilot program that requires trash to be placed in covered garbage cans.
In one part of Hamilton Heights, rat sightings have decreased by 68%, according to DSNY.
Matthew Euzarraga is a multimedia journalist from El Paso, Texas. He has covered local news and LGBTQIA topics in the New York City Metro area since 2021. He joined the PIX11 Digital team in 2023. You can see more of his work here.
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