Last year, there was a big anti-rat campaign in Carrol Park, where the rat problem was so disgusting that they were said to be running around in the trees and practically forming buffets lines to eat in the trash cans and demanding people give them take out containers. “Anti-rat” trash cans were installed. Vegetation was cut to make it easier to find their holes. A major poisoning campaign ensued. And the problem got better. Well, it’s hard to keep good Brooklyn rats down, as this email making the rounds via the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association email list notes:
At about 6:45 in the evening I was sitting on a park bench waiting for someone when a Rat jumped on top of a garbage can then jumped off. I noticed the Rat posion signs but I also noticed that the garbage can was not one of those Anti Rat types. I also noticed a great deal of low lying vegetation. Carroll Gardens was very successful in Carroll Park with getting rid of their rat problem by coming together and dealing with obtaining the proper garbage cans and cutting back the vegetation to make it easier to find the Rat holes. Now that the problem has been dealt with the vegetation has returned. Just a suggestion for a very difficult problem.
A lot of people in the community had made an effort to get rid of the rats, so one does hope that the Rat Olympics aren’t underway again.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Anonymous // Oct 8, 2007 at 6:25 pm
i dont think it is a problem
2 Anonymous // Oct 9, 2007 at 7:44 am
Maybe it has something to do with how the Parks Department has its employees spend their time at this park: They wander aimlessly as they blow leaves and dust around with incredibly noisy leaf blowers rather than sweeping, raking leaves, picking up trash, weeding, clipping shrubbery, planting flowers, or other traditional actions meant to keep a park clean and beautiful. Does the city have a nice fat contract with some big leaf blower company or is this just the new definition of stewardship? Leaf blowers have no place in a neighborhood like this and shouldn’t be paid for with tax dollars.