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April 17, 2005
Rats in the belfry, the subway, and on the sidewalk
New York City has at least one rat per person, perhaps even 12 rats per person. After a few days in New York, one will see some rats. As Letterman notes:
Letterman: How many rats do you believe are in New York City now?
Sullivan: They say it's 8 million -- one per person. Don't believe them.
Letterman: Well, that seems fair don't you think? Everybody gets a rat.
Sullivan: It's not true. It's not true. 1949, Dave Davis from Baltimore comes. Traps. Disproves the one-rat-per-person theory. Shows that there are 256,000 rats in the city at that time.
Letterman: Aw, so we can sleep a little easier. There's only a quarter million rats.
Sullivan: Right.
The rats so far haven't bothered me. In fact, they come out and forage at the subway stops, going about their daily life crawling through the litter that covers the trackbeds of most subway stops. Sometimes they find some bread to take to their lair. They particularly amuse the tourists at the Times Square stop. There is a particular rat that lives about 60 feet south of the turnstile on the downtown 125th 2/3 stop; I see him a lot when I take the train downtown. Some workers sprayed rodenticide two days ago, but I saw the rat again today, so apparently the rodenticide has yet to work.
Posted by adrianjo at April 17, 2005 08:16 PM
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