{"id":939,"date":"2006-04-07T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/when_the_buildings_away_the_rats_will_play.html"},"modified":"2006-04-07T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T17:53:13","slug":"when_the_buildi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/when_the_buildi.html","title":{"rendered":"When The Building’s Away The Rats Will Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Carroll Gardens street now knows that rats need buildings in which to live<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Carroll Gardens block has been taken over by rats, and the city Health Department has done little to combat the menacing pests, residents say.<\/p>\n

Since a demolition project began on a Luquer St. lot last fall, rats have made the street their home, scurrying around in broad daylight, diving into garbage cans and nesting in car engines.<\/p>\n

“They sit there and look at you; they are not afraid,” said Lisa Demaio, 29.<\/p>\n

To get inside her building, the mother of two young girls said she’s forced to throw bottles “to scatter the rats.”<\/p>\n

Yesterday, a rodent lay dead next to three overturned traps in front of the lot.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Residents believe the rats were stirred up by the demolition work at 100 Luquer St., where an 11-story condominium tower is set to rise.<\/p>\n

An owner of the lot agreed — but said there is little he can do.<\/p>\n

“Rats are not something we can control,” said Moses Gross, a partner on the construction project.<\/p>\n

Gross said his office has hired an exterminator, who is set to begin work next week after receiving repeated calls from neighbors.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it will help,” he said. “Every time you do a demolition, they come out.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Carroll Gardens street now knows that rats need buildings in which to live: A Carroll Gardens block has been taken over by rats, and the city Health Department has done little to combat the menacing pests, residents say. Since a demolition project began on a Luquer St. lot last fall, rats have made the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-just_horrible","category-the_natural_world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}