Some of the complaints are not for the squeamish. On Feb. 4, someone contacted 311 to report “several large rat burrows” on ...

They get a burial, of course. Matt Deodato, an exterminator fighting the rat battle in New York told Insider that he collapses the burrows that rats reside in after killing them with carbon monoxide.

City employees have been pumping carbon monoxide into rat burrows — and say it's proven to be effective so far. But Corradi said people need to change too in order to cut the rat population down.