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Tim Balk and Chris Sommerfeldt

NYC Council passes bills to fight rats: ‘They have begun to define us’

NEW YORK — Rat’s all, folks.

The New York City Council on Thursday passed four anti-rat bills, taking aim from multiple directions at the worsening vermin scourge menacing the five boroughs.

The package, dubbed the Rat Action Plan, would set new pest management standards for all major private construction projects, require the city to establish new rat mitigation zones and mandate annual Health Department reports on the rodent plague.

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