Sentences with phrase «more city rats»

Not exact matches

Comptroller John Liu's office surveyed 107 playgrounds across the city last summer and found safety hazards at more than two dozen of them, including rats scurrying through Tompkins Square Park to crumbling safety mats at East River Playground on East 106th Street.

He noted the city has recently changed its approach to rat control, targeting entire neighborhoods instead of individual lots, which the Health Department has said is a more effective approach.

Saying the city wanted «more rat corpses,» he declared a $ 32 million assault on the most problematic rat strongholds — parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood and along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx — and promised to reduce the number of rats in those areas by 70 percent by the end of next year.

And they're much more common in the city: «There are so many rats,» says Vinetz, «the rats have to sleep in shifts.»

In its man - against - impersonal - authority theme, its mild surrealism, its rat - a-tat scripting, and its razored wryness, «Arrested Development» is the inheritor of the postwar Ealing Comedies (whereas «Grey's Anatomy» is more foul excretia in the «Sex and the City» mode).

All you need is a 24 - hour locksmith and New York City probably has more locksmiths than rats.

According to Wikipedia, some dogs are still be used as a form of pest control in many major cities around the world as a more humane alternative to rat poisons.

But the infection is appearing more frequently in these unvaccinated small dogs, and it is well known that the rat population in cities can also be a common source of exposure to these smaller dogs.

Bull - baiting, which had been popular in earlier times, did not lend itself to the cities, and fanciers of the rat pit became increasingly enamored of dog fighting as a more exciting alternative to rat killing.

Conveniently located right in the heart of the city, between the expansive (and, generally, expensive) Jungceylon Shopping Centre and the Sleep With Me Design Hotel along Rat - U-Thit Road, it has quite an impressive choice of small market - type stalls selling a variety Read More...

Beside one of the nation's busiest highways and next door to the country's largest city is a six - acre zoo, home to jackals, fat sand rats, a pack of wolves, pink flamingos and more.