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rats

A collection of 13 issues

Losing the Rat Race

photo credit: Mary Frost/Brooklyn Eagle [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/rats-march-brooklyn-update] Rats are all over the Slope these days, which is evidence that either that we’re living in end times, or that the unsavory critters are as into fair-trade coffee as we are. The Brooklyn Eagle took a

City, MTA Do Battle With Rats While One Solution Goes Ignored

Photo Credit: Linda S.The city, along with New York City Transit, recently ramped up their anti-rat campaign along New Utrecht Avenue. Unfortunately, one simple preventative measure that could put a permanent end to the rat problem is currently being ignored. Plastic mesh has been installed around the now-infamous exposed

Exposed D Train Columns Making Merchants, Residents Anxious

Destructive, dirty, deserted and downright delirious. These could soon become the adjectives most commonly used to describe the MTA’s execution of construction plans for the elevated D Train in Borough Park. NY1 is reporting that exposed columns, which were excavated for maintenance that began in 2009, are quickly becoming