One Way To Stop The Rats? Turn Away From Fines. - City Limits

One Way To Stop The Rats? Turn Away From Fines. - City Limits

“A system that centralizes fines ignores two crucial facts about our rodent crisis: rats do not abide by property boundaries and many homeowners are asset rich but cash poor, and do not have the resources to pay for either the fine or the requested intervention.” A rat poison on the building in Brooklyn. (Emil Cohen/NYC Council Media Unit) If there’s one thing every New Yorker hates, it’s rats. And coming in at a close second is the ubiquitous o…