by Emma Davey Like pizza, yellow taxi cabs, and Broadway, rats go hand in hand with New York City. And the waterfront location and amount of trash make Transmitter Park a favorite hang-out spot for the furry foes. A Reddit user recently noticed several rat burrows in the park, describing it as a “rat lair of doom.”
Greenpointers reached out to the city’s Parks Department to see what was to be done.
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Rat poison is not only deadly for rats but also for the creatures that hunt and eat rats, like hawks and owls. How come this piece of common knowledge has not reached our city government? https://www.ctaudubon.org/2023/02/rat-and-mouse-poisons-also-kill-hawks-its-time-to-ban-2nd-generation-rodenticides/
Squeak, squeak.
I thought Parks treated rat burrows by pumping in CO2. That’s what is being done at MacDonald Park in Queens.