By now, we think we're all quite comfortable admitting that NYC is really the rats' fiefdom—we're just renting their property, riding their subways, and stuffing our mouths full with them in a desperate bid for some semblance of control. But according to BBC/Discovery Channels excellent Human Planet, there’s at least one rat for every person in NYC. The show will explore the Big Apple's rat population in this Sunday's episode. Below, you can check out a clip from it, in which pest control firm M&M Environmental explores the basement of one unnamed East Village restaurant. It makes you think extra hard about where you're ordering out from, to say the least.
Bowery Boogie has some more factoids from the episode: In May of 2010, the city health department laid off 75 percent of its pest control staff; In 2010, there were 10,500 citywide complains of rodents received by 311- up more than 5 percent since 2009; and so far in 2011, rodent complaints are already up by 9 percent since 2010’s numbers.
