You could call it rat-tour-y.
New York City has always been at war with rats, from when they jumped from the nave to the coast in the eighteenth century to the anti-ridges campaign in today’s city. For many decades, the brown rodent in the middle was demolished in the collective psyche of the Grand Apple, even referring to a recent episode of “and like”, where Carrie Bradshaw called as the rats passed in front of the backyard.
Fortunately, Gotham’s Vermina Vermina plague has emerged to educate and reduce fear factor: Suzanne Reisman, New York’s rubbish leader and rats.
Dressed in glittering and false rat ears like a bizarre mouse, Varmint Savant brings guests to some of the most infested by rats in the city, while slopes decent facts on the habits of shouts, to the la la A sanitation history lesson complies with a safari of urban wildlife.
“Rats like to go to the poop!” He was enthusiastic about unpleasant rodent tourists during a recent tour as he talked about the delicacy of the canine excrement.
“They will take a look, they will find the non -digested kibble,” he told the curious people. “I mean, the dog’s poop is annoying, but in any case, I never go through the dog poop without thinking:” Oh, it’s a rat refreshment. “
Ever since the tour opened in April, the city’s curious visitors and the locals have been claiming to see the Big Apple’s debris pet pet.
“There has been a lot of interest,” Reisman said in the publication of the popular experience, frankly skin, which costs $ 40 per person.
“I exhausted two visits and filled the waiting lists during the Jane Walk,” he said on a recent excursion to coincide with the Annual Peu Talk Festival aimed at the community. “I was not sure that people would show up on a Sunday night tour in the rain, but yes!”
At the two -hour raid through the bottom of Manhattan, the guests learned how the Rat of Norway, a mistaken mistake, as they came from Asia, explained Reisman, took a walk here on Hessian ships in the late 1700’s. They soon discovered a real garbage island caused by non -existent waste management policies, stools and much more in the streets and even on the East River.
“The rats get off the boat. They take a look and think,” Jackpot-it we have done, “Reisman said to Rapt Tours and other revulsive guests.” They are beyond Super Happy, and they are very much from New York, a successful immigrant in New York, like any other group. “
From then on, rats and garbage would go hand in hand.
Especially after the 1968 sanitation workers strike, NYC did not use garbage containers again, which led to countless opportunities for rats to multiply, Reisman explained.
The guests learn a lot of fear, such as the way rats have sex up to 20 times a day, why the scourge is so unbridled, and visit the old place in the Water Street athletes, where viewers would bet on the fierce terrier fights towards Rat, which houses the leader of the Irish bands in the 1800’s.
“It’s amazingly fun to talk about these stories, share, listen to other people what their experiences have been,” the guide, who left his 20 -year -old career in non -profit work, was reached to scratch full time.
Then, of course, are the rats themselves.
According to Reisman, many and many rats, about 225,000 beasts are in the great apple. When a dachshund sized varmine came out of the shrubs in a single stop, the guests ohed and aahed As bird observers could on a vibrant Jay blue or a rare Condor.
In the meantime, the Grand Final was Delure Square at the bottom of Manhattan, so named by John Delury Sr., who founded the premises of the Uniformed Sanitation’s Association in 1956, and apparently more infested by rodents than a scene from the 2007 animated film “Ratatouille”.
Why do people claim to see a creature that used to do something to avoid?
Caroline Murray Murray, a native Boston resident and a New York native, who returned to visit -with his teenage children, told The Post that he wanted to see something that felt “more like Gritty New York” he loves and not Times Square’s tourist trap.
“We saw live rats. We saw a crepe [squashed flat] rat. We saw a boy throwing in a gutter, “Murray sprouted from the outlined scenes that unfolded in front of him.” It was a New York experience in general that my children do not always reach the suburbs of Massachusetts. “
He added that New York rodents are known outside the city, claiming that the city’s immortal pizza rat is a “hero” in Boston.
“The rats are having a moment,” he said.
Reisman is not the only tourist guide that is not interested in interest. Rodent Rodent’s companion Kenny Bollwerk told the publication that he has had so many rats visits that he “cannot physically go every night”.
The self -proclaimed “Rat Daddy”, which films its Rodent Spotting operations for its Tiktok series “Rat Tok”, was forced to add more stops to the tour, especially a “area next to Wollman Rink (Central Park), where the trash can move away, offering views that are seen from the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line of the line. to the rats in the buffet below. “
Reisman attributes the fascination of others in part, and somewhat ironically, to the anti-ridge offensive of the whole city, headed by Zar Kathleen Corradi de Rata.
Along with the Rata poison with contraceptives and the deployment of “Empire Bins” to Rat Proof in Manhattan, the campaign has included a special program for educating the community in garbage.
It includes an academy of rats to teach “safe and effective rats prevention” such as filling the inactive burrows, a rat hike that highlights the relationship between humans and rats, and a community service project where red aspirants have learned what they have learned in rat-tlefield.
It may not be surprising that Riesman, receiving with factoids, is a graduate from the Academy and a member of the “Rat Pack”, an “elite elite team of anti-ridges activists dedicated to the city.”
“It seems that the city itself is doing much more to involve people,” said Reisman. “So I think it is as if there is also more openness to this kind of thing and more discussion in general. And the citizens in general are more interested.”
The most important lesson?
Cut food supply from cheese thieves.
“We really have to address the fact that our city has a lot of junk,” he said. “We throw the garbage bags on the street that are easy for rats. But if we really reduce access, this would help significantly.”
For ingenuity, rats calling to the whole city at 311 are generally reduced by each of the last six months compared to the same time of last year, which coincides with the new city requirements for closed cover garbage containers.
“I think New York is an amazing and vibrant city, and we all deserve the best and we can work together to do it,” said Reisman, who believes that rats and NYCs are inextricably linked, for better or worse.
“Rats are so linked to New York City, both actually and in our lore,” he said. “They are a kind of small monsters, but also a kind of … nice.”
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