Through April, people have called in some 7,400 rat sightings to the city's 311 service request line. Up by more than 60% from roughly the first four months of 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.
During a recent news conference in Times Square, Adams announced the city's latest effort: padlocked curbside trash bins intended to reduce the big piles of garbage bags that turn into a buffet for rodents.
As some cities consider making outdoor dining permanent - an option born of necessity during the pandemic - they are mindful of a further swelling of the rat population. Even before the pandemic, experts noticed a rise in rat populations in some of the country's largest cities. Some New York City restaurants erected curbside sheds to allow COVID-wary diners to eat outside. But unfinished meals left at tables have sometimes drawn brazen four-legged leftover bandits - a la Pizza Rat, who gained fame in 2015 after a video went viral showing the rodent dragging a slice of pizza down a flight of subway stairs .
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