“We’re incredibly excited and optimistic about all the containerization work we’re seeing in the city because that’s reducing food competition — and really reducing a rat’s ability to reproduce by cutting off its food source,” city rat czar Kathleen Corradi told The Post in an exclusive interview Monday. The effort is part of “Flaco’s Law,” which the council passed after rat poison was linked to the death of the Central Park Zoo’s beloved escapee Flaco the owl. Corradi added that when one area has success combatting the rodents, she doesn’t expect hungry rats to simply migrate to other parts of the city in search of food because the rodent species is “by nature, hyperlocal.
Author: Nicole Rosenthal
Published at: 2025-06-09 22:26:18
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