Baltimore’s Rat Rubout team takes 235,000 calls a year, seeking to exterminate the vermin population plaguing neighborhoods.

Adon Berishaj, the supervisor for Bronx Parks, says teams of exterminators visit the borough's parks weekly and search for rat burrows. "You know, rats love to dig in and make their nests in the ...

Andrew Barrett is hardly a rat sympathizer. He's spent years waging war on the rodents who flock to his community garden in Brooklyn, smashing the entrances to their underground burrows ...

The Department of Neighborhood Services responds to only complaints about rat burrows at residential properties. Renters and owners can contact the city for assistance with rat burrows.

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.