<p>Quote PosterX
"Whenever I wander downtown Manhattan at night, and even day if the street is quiet, the rats scurry all around my feet"</p>
<p>PosterX: a pretty shi**y source of information.</p>
<p>Sullivan's new bestselling book about rats in NYC (which is titled, incidentally, Rats) is a good source if you need some official confirmation of what I see on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Perhaps I'm getting the wrong impression. I see a guy walking down Fifth Ave at 2 AM up to his ankles in rats. Correct me if your "rats scurry all around my feet" doesn't imply that.</p>
<p>Not 5th Ave. so much. Farther downtown.</p>
<p>I live in NJ, go up to NY all the time to visit family, and I've never seen a rat scurrying on the street. And I'm talking about Queens here. Not the Upper West Side or something.</p>
<p>Some parts of Queens have 'em, some don't. I'm referring more to lower Manhattan, though. Well, that and Prospect Park.</p>
<p>I hate rats. After a year of college at Hopkins I've only ever seen one, and it was off campus.</p>