Rats are apparently overwhelming two locations in particular on the Upper West Side. Residents are calling it an end-of-summer invasion.
The rodents were rambunctious at West 96th Street and Broadway on Monday. A swarm is how Linda Colarusso and her neighbors described the scene.
“Everybody’s talking about it,” Colarusso said. “We’ve definitely seen rats over there by the median and the entrance going into the subway.”
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