The remaining kills occurred on the sidewalks of the Park Slope and Gowanus areas. Nearly all, according to Ms. Darby, had taken place inside the orbit of a trash can or bag, and all were within a mile or so of her house. September was the busiest month for Katie.
Thursday is, for some reason, her most productive day of the week. Despite Mayor Eric Adams’s vociferously proclaimed war on rats.,
Which includes his recent attempt to relocate the city’s iconic piles of garbage bags from sidewalks to bins, Katie has found an unlimited supply of victims.
Kathleen Corradi, the city’s rat czar, is implementing thorough pest control methods in four “Rat Mitigation Zones.”
A social group of dog owners who had been taking their dogs ratting in Manhattan every Friday night for 30 years recently quit up since the rats in the Harlem zone had been so reduced.
Richard Reynolds, the organizer of the Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society, or RATS, said, “You get one or two, but that’s not what we’re there for.”
