Rats in the Subway
Posted by: WorldTraveler (ool-457abbd1.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: February 19, 2011 08:32PM


I was amazed how many I saw on the tracks in the subway. I have been to many large cities around the world. I have never ever seen rats, let alone so many rats. Not only it's disgusting, but it's really dangerous from health perspective since rats can carry various infections and deceases. How come New Yorkers don't care about this issue, or don't care about it enough to solve this problem? This problem does not exist at all in any other major developed city. Even in China they don't have rats in the subways.

Another rat on the subway...

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I am glad this topic is active again. I think rats and turds are the biggest issues with the subway.

riding the subway/rats
Posted by: Dean (99-32-163-147.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net)
Date: September 09, 2011 09:43PM


Hello. We are visiting NYC the weekend of September 17th. We want to take the subway from Times Square up to Sylvia's in Harlem on Saturday afternoon. The issue: both of us are fairly wary of rats, and I just read about the rat biting the woman at the Brooklyn Bridge terminal. How likely are we to be around rats if we take the subway up to Sylvia's? Also, what routes would we take from around 42d street up to 125th street via the bus system instead of the subway? Thank you very much in advance.

I would be more afraid to be bitten by a wild nigga in Harlem.

Here’s another reason to stay in bed, New Yorkers. And it’s got nothing to do with kamikaze bicycle assassins or obnoxious cellphone yakkers who’ve been given license to bombard subway platforms with loud chat.

The city is getting overrun by rats.

Like something out of a slasher movie, the rabies-carrying rodents lurk in the recesses of the brain. Then they pop out on the playground or subway train, as if to taunt, “I outnumber you!’’

They’re big, fat and entirely gross. And now major cutbacks in the number of city rat-killers have finally hit home. Rats are rising from the underground tracks. In a viral YouTube video, one frisky fiend even climbed up a sleeping straphanger’s leg.



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Rat infested subway is a disgrace!

One of evolution’s more triumphant guilty pleasures, the New York rat, whose precursors waged bio-guerrilla war against the post-dinosaur reptilian rear guard 50 million years ago, comes to the table sporting a dossier of astounding and sobering attributes. Female brown rats are sexually mature at eight-to-ten weeks and can produce a litter within 21 days of impregnation. They can mate again within eighteen hours of giving birth and routinely turn out more than 50 offspring per year. Rats can swim for more than half a mile, tread water for three days, sometimes even emerging in the bathroom bowl. They can gnaw through concrete and lead, collapse their skeletons to fit through a hole no bigger than a quarter. They can go for two weeks without sleeping, utilizing this extended wakefulness to devour everything in sight. According to an estimate, rats and their rodent allies eat and otherwise despoil up to one fifth of the world’s food supply. This is to say nothing of their role in wiping out half of Europe during the Black Death plague of the mid-1300s. The plague also killed many rats, but the rodent proved its staying power when several were found to have survived the atomic-bomb testing on the Eniwetok Atoll in 1945.

When it comes to who and what will be left standing following Armageddon, the rat has a compelling résumé. Yet it wasn’t until that late-summer evening in the East Village that the Rattus norvegicus added resurrection-by-beer to its vita. It mattered little that the rat staggered barely a few feet before keeling over again, likely succumbing to some exterminator’s slow-death dose of rodenticide. He had proved his point.




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