Rats attack ritzy NYC block that’s home to doctors, professors — chewing up cars, trash bins and playgrounds: ‘Valley of the Rats’

Source: New York Post

A vermin invasion has turned a ritzy Upper West Side block into “The Valley of the Rats. ” Residents are said they’re afraid to venture out at night along the elite stretch — where doctors and professors live and boxing legend Floyd Mayweather owns more than a dozen buildings — because of the horror-movie-sized rodents that chew their way into cars, gnaw through trash bins and scurry around the local playground. “I need to move out, because I can’t live in fear,” said Ankita Brahmaroutu, 31, a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center who has lived on the block for about a year.