{"id":77144,"date":"2026-08-08T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/whos-winning-new-york-citys-war-on-rats-rodents-or-trash-bins\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:56:04","slug":"whos-winning-new-york-citys-war-on-rats-rodents-or-trash-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/whos-winning-new-york-citys-war-on-rats-rodents-or-trash-bins\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s winning New York City\u2019s war on rats: rodents or trash bins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City on track to record fewest reported rat sightings since pandemic as Mamdani\u2019s \u2018containerization\u2019 program brings bins to boroughs<\/p>\n<p>Is New York finally winning its war on rats? Or are New Yorkers\u2019 vermin neighbors merely adapting to changing circumstances and, at least in some neighborhoods, staying out of sight?<\/p>\n<p>With an estimated one rat for every three people, New York\u2019s long-running rat war is in a period of uneasy detente.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/08\/new-york-city-rats-trash-bins\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City on track to record fewest reported rat sightings since pandemic as Mamdani\u2019s \u2018containerization\u2019 program brings bins to boroughs Is New York finally winning its war on rats? Or are New Yorkers\u2019 vermin neighbors merely adapting to changing circumstances and, at least in some neighborhoods, staying out of sight? With an estimated one rat for &#8230; <a title=\"Who\u2019s winning New York City\u2019s war on rats: rodents or trash bins?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/whos-winning-new-york-citys-war-on-rats-rodents-or-trash-bins\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who\u2019s winning New York City\u2019s war on rats: rodents or trash bins?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}