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It's been close to a decade since New York City's "Pizza Rat" took the world by storm with a video that was a bit less ...

“This is New York, you escape people by going up or down ... the most famous being Pizza Rat, filmed in 2015 lugging a gargantuan slice of pizza down the steps of the First Avenue L train ...

It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at why a pizzeria owner named Patsy Grimaldi was a bridge to the early days of pizza in New York. We’ll also get details on changes to strengthen state ...

Kevin Coop, a Brooklyn resident, accidentally took a special plus one to a wedding he was attending in upstate New York. The rat surfaced almost three hours into the drive, shocking other guests ...

The truth is you give an inch back, they'll take a mile. There's no definitive count of the rat populace in New York, though one recent estimate placed it at about 3 million. Various mayors ...

A steady increase in shipboard rats began to be noticed in New York Harbor in the summer of 1940, less than a year after the war started in Europe. Rats and rat fleas in many foreign ports are at ...