NYC night time rat tours: Tourists sign up for "authentic" NYC tours

[Mooshashi]

LET'S GET A GROUP TOGETHER AND CHECK OUT THIS TOUR!

Tourists are flocking to the Big Apple to check out its exploding rat population — and tour guides are tailoring excursions to introduce them to the city’s most beady-eyed natives.

Kenny Bollwerk maps out late-night rat routes near Rockefeller Center and in Flushing and Sunnyside, Queens.

Luke Miller, owner of Real New York Tours, adds a stop to Columbus Park near Chinatown for tourists with a yen for vermin.

“They are like the new celebs in New York City with all the press they are getting,” said Miller.

Such fascination may have begun seven years ago when New York City’s most famous rodent, the Pizza Rat, drew 12 million viewers to an online video of it trekking down subway stairs while dragging a full slice.

“**** are like a New York City mascot,” said Bollwerk. “People want to see it for themselves.”

Bollwerk’s free walking tours of rat hotspots include busted-up sidewalks and construction sites where the rodents squeeze themselves under fences and through sidewalk cracks, and restaurants in Sunnyside and Forest Hills where garbage is piled high, and abandoned outdoor dining shacks provide rodent refuge.

Up to 10,000 people at a time tune in to Bollwerk’s TikTok live ******s as he explores rodent-infested areas.

[GhostofDempsey]

A few years ago I watched a news story on a group of rat hunters in NYC. They had Jack Russells which are dogs once used for hunting rodents. The rat problem has always existed in NYC, but it has gone unattended and is now bordering on a crisis. A guy I knew how worked private sanitation back in the 90’s told me almost every dumpster he flipped open would be infested with **** jumping out. He told me about a spot under the Kosciuszko bridge where if you pull up with the lights off and then turn them on you’ll see hundreds of them scattering.

[Madison Boxing]

Sounds as if new York has gone down hill in recent years, full of **** and tramps

[Theodore]

1980s NY is making a comeback!

[Mooshashi]

1980s NY is making a comeback!

The whole "South Bronx" thing was the fault of Robert Moses. He had the Cross Bronx Expressway built from west to east, through thriving neighborhoods. The highway cut of the south Bronx from the rest of the city. 60,000 residents were displaced or adversely affected. It was something like you'd expect from communist China or Russia. Property values plummeted and land owners let the buildings burn to get federal urban renewal funds or insurance funds. So the area looked bombed out an horrible in the 1980's. It wasn't a ******* progressive failure, but a deliberate plan to segregate citizens and destroy property values that were picked up later at bargain basement prices. The situation in NYC now is entirely a different matter created by entirely different policies.



Now there are plans to revitalize the highway such that it isn't a dividing line.

[jmrf4435]

nasty city-- the people suck too

[GhostofDempsey]

The whole "South Bronx" thing was the fault of Robert Moses. He had the Cross Bronx Expressway built from west to east, through thriving neighborhoods. The highway cut of the south Bronx from the rest of the city. 60,000 residents were displaced or adversely affected. It was something like you'd expect from communist China or Russia. Property values plummeted and land owners let the buildings burn to get federal urban renewal funds or insurance funds. So the area looked bombed out an horrible in the 1980's. It wasn't a ******* progressive failure, but a deliberate plan to segregate citizens and destroy property values that were picked up later at bargain basement prices. The situation in NYC now is entirely a different matter created by entirely different policies.



Now there are plans to revitalize the highway such that it isn't a dividing line.

The Cross Bronx Expressway was necessary because the streets of the Bronx aren’t gridded like Manhattan or parts of other boroughs. Driving in The Bronx is a major pain in the ass. Other boroughs also experienced urban decay and high crime and it wasn’t due to some conspiracy or segregation agenda. Lots of corruption yes, but ******** mayors like Lindsey, Beame and Koch and Dinkins were awful and corrupt leaders from the late 60’s to early 90’s. Notice how the city improved under Rudy and then under ******* DiBlasio and Smith it’s a disaster again.

[jmrf4435]

that low blow was sooo bad man

[kara]

I remember being in an area of New York called Red Hook and it was the first time I saw a neighborhood where there were **** everywhere and I mean everywhere. It was nuts.

[i_am_a_champ]

The New York Mafia should be told about this rat problem.