NYC Has an Infestation Problem… Why?

Over the last 65 years, NYC’s rat population has grown 800%… and its not slowing down. Why is that?
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[@gembearer67]

Avoid movie theaters; once the lights go down, the bed bugs become active. Bed bugs can crawl off of a host, or out of a cushion and onto you. Makes my skin crawl!

[@backagain5216]

All that garbage strewn all over the sidewalks. I had a dozen reasons to keep away from society. This is #13. I’m far more content by the way.

[@jmason2838]

😵‍💫😬🤮😫🤨😭😝 🧼🫧🫧🫧🫧👍👍🍀

[@thes.k.eletonhunter7951]

😦

[@victoryforvictims3522]

Bug bombs (emergency): X3 Bedroom, Hallway, Bathroom. Fumigation (maintenance): Cedar oil and/or anything safe non-toxic and bug unfriendly. Requires super permission.

[@TT-dp8qh]

Your report is much better than those news channels. Very clever!!!

[@lesterdiamond6190]

Every one of these videos makes me so happy about my life.

[@arch417powersports]

Infested with corrupt politicians.

[@KingDeku6967]

💀

[@ALIBABA1014]

Democrats?

[@keetahbrough]

lol.. there's more slaves then politicians in cities.. more slaves then masters! Citizens?=rats. It's the RAT RACE after all.. being on the corporate ladder and the corporate ladder is the ONLY thing that NYC offers.

[@rickandnaruto]

Infested with disrespectful Americans who throw trash on the floor. You should check out Japan's streets of their most popular cities.

[@miles5600]

Which ones? Not all of them are. The whole country is full of lobbyists and politicians getting paid to vote for something they don’t want. That’s corrupt

[@damonaniton]

I was home about a month ago. As someone born and raised in NYC the amount of both trash and rats was insane to me. To say it was bad was an understatement.

[@Charles-d4e3b]

Remember merit? Yeah that’s over decade ago

[@michaeledwards1644]

the rats eat trash, bugs and are friendly or run from humans for the most part.. they are usually not in apartment buildings..while living in NYC I did not mind them at all..the bugs were the bigger problem, sometimes they have them under control and sometimes not

[@LD-sh4dj]

@@michaeledwards1644wow…I’ve heard they are NOTfriendly… of folks being bitten while sleeping…but I also Know in other cases they WILL attack if provoked. I lived at the Sloane House YMCA on 34th & 9th back in 1984…we had HUNDREDS of rats running around day and night in the enclosed ground floor courtyard visible from the upper floor bathrooms…because the residents would throw their garbage out the window for fun. Thank God I never saw any on my floor, not in my subsequent apartments.. 14:45 I lived on the 6th floor. Man, I miss NYC😂😂😂

[@michaeledwards1644]

@@LD-sh4dj they do not attack humans unless cornered 95% of the time..i'd feel totally safe sleeping near a pile of trash as far as rats..the roaches are the bigger problem and disgusting

[@Laidback718]

Too much people in the city

[@russellkeeling4387]

I worked for years in a mountain resort community and we had a problem with bears. They would get into the trash containers and scatter trash while teaching their young that was their source of food. It took much work to prevent the bear from getting to the trash containers and when we were able to accomplish that the humans were to lazy to open the closed area and would just throw their trash on the top of the enclosure. You can put all the trash containers you want around your city but the people have to be retrained to not be lazy bums and use them correctly.

[@wildermidnight]

Its not just that. I think all of those outdoor eating areas contribute and multiply the problem. It doesn't matter the establishment. If its expensive and fancy or casual or fast food i will never sit down to eat in one of those rat shacks.

[@Markwaltonn5860]

​@@wildermidnightrats need love too😂😂

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

@russellkeeling And always remember to properly seal the window and door mounts etc. If you leave a gap of 1 inch, then a 🐻 🐻‍❄ 🧸 bear can squeeze itself in. 😄😁

[@ChillWill-q5x]

I'm really familiar with Gatlinburg, tourists do it to themselves there but most of them just don't understand just how vigilant you really have to be. I've watched bears empty vehicles without a care in the world with the owners just feet away.

[@markkramer9700]

Cash, you've taken a "simple" real-estate channel and evolved it into a superb documentary channel about life in a big city. I don't know what you're educational background is, but you make a great reporter and correspondent. Keep on keeping on!

[@Kymberlee_W]

He has a degree in accounting, from what he has said in past videos, but he hated it and so turned to rea estate.

[@BlueGamer335]

For real!

[@blessedblessed4323]

Same here. Never had to use my accounting degree. 71 year old

[@guysumpthin2974]

Biblical plague & pestilence

[@guysumpthin2974]

Well done video , marble-race guy???

[@kathleenlankford6027]

People pay outrageous rents to live in filth, doesn't make sense to me.

[@sandramatthews2581]

So true I moved out of New York years ago glad I did

[@653j521]

People foul their own nests. How's that for sense?

[@NextNate03]

Most people don't have a choice. Some or most can't afford to move out of the city.

[@robporter6659]

CORRECT! LLLOOOOLLL!!😅

[@robporter6659]

​@@NextNate03WHAT! WAKE! UP!

[@donaldleider7382]

Lifelong NYC resident, I just watched a video about Singapore. I was jealous, I couldn’t believe how clean it was!

[@mariah660]

Influencers glamorize NYC. Cash keeps it real

[@daebak_hana]

🎯🎯🎯 there is nothing glamorous about nyc. I used to envy the food options there until I lived in Las Vegas/Henderson temporarily. The selection there is fantastic as well. I go work in Henderson for the winter and enjoy then back home to upstate ny.

[@NextNate03]

It has been like that for the last 200 to 300+ years. *Edit* NYC isn't growing in population. It shrank because of most of the ongoing issues including cost of living.

[@_Kittensworth]

A rat tried to run up my leg in Bushwick a couple years ago. I'm not afraid of rats, but I don't want a stray one running around on my feet!

[@oguzb.7033]

In Istanbul, Turkiye, with nearly 18 million population, there is no rats problem with the help of our beautiful stray cats. We care about our stray cats, feed them, take care of their health by people and government and they do their job very well to protect our cities from infestation 🐈😻🧹🐀

[@louisevannorden2001]

That’s wonderful! I love that idea! 🇺🇸

[@oguzb.7033]

@@louisevannorden2001 If you search for Istanbul cats in youtube, you will see lots of beautiful videos about this 😻🐈

[@chrismarcello7690]

Stray cats are dangerous they attack for no reason and now you’re infested with cats

[@getschwifty9531]

​@mychemicalbromance69calm down, sweetie.

[@oguzb.7033]

@8bg201 I don't know, never seen, cats are clean animals.

[@Jeracraft]

In Gibraltar where I'm from, most of the community comes together once a year to clean up the environment and nature reserves voluntarily. It's a wild comparison but I don't understand why there is so much trash.

[@Minalkra]

NYC has few alleys. The city plotters didn't leave any room for them when they sold the plots back in the early 1800's and so when NYC boomed, everyone built to the max size and the city would have to fight a LOT of legal battles to get public alleys in place for things like trash and other services. At least, that's what I heard from some KZbin City Plan channel or something and it sounds about right. So it's probably only halfway true.

[@MooseBme]

Because that would make sense...

[@Charles-d4e3b]

Is Gibraltar filled with 99% Gibraltians cause yeah

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

They have a population of over 8 million people on that little island. They have over 29,000 people per square mile. Where I live we have over 2900 per square mile. In Montana I think it’s 7 people per square mile and Alaska has 1.? Persons per square mile. So Alaska doesn’t even have 2 people in one square mile. Look at the numbers and that should answer your question. If it doesn’t I can’t help you!

[@willytodd2750]

@@user-vm5ud4xw6n if 8 million people cleaned up after themselves, where would the problem come from? It isnt the amount of people, it's the quality and attitude. Most people in US cities either outright dislike the US, or are not from the US. The same reason rental cars get thrashed is the same reason US cities get thrashed. Nobody sees it as their own. It's just a place to be used and abused., a tool to be used to get what you want and discarded when its over. Diversity is our strength is a subversive statement that most of our citizens love to chant. It's actually quite backwards. Diversity is our weakness, and NYC is one of the best examples of our weakness. The locals hate themselves and their government and each other, and they welcome rival cultures and peoples to come do as they please while they fight amongst themselves. The situation is absurd and nobody seems to realize it. At least the people who are in it don't.

[@stacysanders-w3e]

What New York needs is more "Cats" on Broadway.

[@georgeanngash9896]

Dogs if rats are big

[@adidas3s506]

I’m 45 and it’s been the same rat problem in NYC for as long as I can remember. Same complaints, same trash and same dumb city officials

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

City officials put there...by emotional, unintelligent voters.

[@chickyrogue8485]

Votes don't get counted in ny but hey trash in the street and 72 genders in the classroom

[@jimsullivanyoutube]

I don't know, today's city officials have really lowered the bar seems to me. The place is going down faster and faster.

[@shouygui4955]

Oudoor dining is literally "free real estate." Also, remember, the outdoor dining is "for your health." "Trust the science!"

[@symonem.8783]

We are the same age and I only remember seeing rats in Manhattan and the subways. There was never an infestation in Brooklyn and I live in Bushwick.

[@JessieLeigh93]

This reminds me of what it was like in England during the plagues many years ago. Scary to be honest.

[@dianaquill9969]

This is why my arms hurt as a kid when we were traveling. My parents immediately checked for bed bugs and we had to carry all our stuff and theirs as they checked the room. Great content, I enjoyed listening. Thank you for sharing!

[@Gitn2it]

In the olden days, I remember seeing pictures of people sweeping the sidewalks and streets in front of their houses. Now we depend on the government to clean up after us. Apparently, government is not able to keep up with the slobs who don't care to clean up after themselves.

[@Iquey]

You would think people would sweep their own cafes at least..

[@denverdubois5835]

Interesting point. Truth is you are right; standards in cleanliness have fallen fast in the last 100 years or so, especially the last 30-40...

[@dianewilkins4418]

Amen. No community

[@MoProf]

"I don't think rats can pick locks." Don't be too certain of that.

[@lavedadavis818]

Depends on the borough they are in. I think they've mastered locks in several places. Madness

[@J4sse]

You guys are kidding, right?

[@vanrex7682]

You guys are kidding, right ??

[@Blaiselade]

It’s called adaptation. They take classes on how to open them locks.

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

They just squeeze through them.

[@sarafstop32]

When I lived in NYC, the vermin problem was pretty bad, but now it seems out of control. Back then, the rule of thumb was to never rent in a building with a restaurant or bodega downstairs. I'm glad that Cash addressed the problem with food service places in this excellent video. My only disagreement would be is that it's an exercise in futility to check a restaurant's cleanliness, no matter how expensive and fancy shmancy they are. There's always slippage in the best of them. To be safe, avoid those buildings all together. I remember a garbage workers strike being settled fast because of the piled up garbage attracting rats. There was talk of the potential of bubonic plague because of the fleas the rats could be carrying. I kid you not. NYC really needs to address this whole problem, because bedbugs could be awaiting you at the Plaza.

[@Irisfcastellano]

I left NY 1970 it was getting ugly

[@Irisfcastellano]

I left NY 1970 it was getting ugly

[@MangaGamified]

In the Philippines, Makati probably gets 1/1,000,000th the tax collected compared to NYC. But a few rules can go a long way like trash are not allowed outside until garbage collection hour, but even then, people are signaled there's the trash collector and go to a designated spot to place and collect the trash, and not let the garbage collector visit everyone's home and some nook and cranny. It's not perfectly trash proof, mostly tourist taking food 'to go' and if there's no garbage bin nearby, you know what they do. But we still clean after, lastly a few stray cats here and there, and some being clean freaks(of their own property), we get this. But I think Singapore is still more of a clean freak / paranoia compared to us when we toured there. Bubble Gum was even illegal there last time we toured.

[@PINE1berry]

Telling one building owner that he has to containerize while the owner next door doesn't is a really stupid idea that will never work.

[@DrBernon]

Everyone will just cross the sidewalk to throw the bag.

[@bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953]

Seems like more of an attack on smaller businesses. Pressure for them to sell to large corporations or investments firms. Looking at you blackrock and statestreet.

[@greeneyedmimibostian3013]

Bed bugs can live 18 months without blood

[@653j521]

@@greeneyedmimibostian3013 But how long without a bed? Sleep deprivation can kill.

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

It is pointless, and from what I heard the containers aren't that great. Very thin plastic that rats can easily chew through. Not that they have to because littering is still mostly not enforced and people just throw every thing on the ground anyways.

[@markadler8968]

This is what happens when you leave garbage laying in the streets for pickup. I live in Vancouver Canada right downtown and hardly ever see rats. We have thick steel bins that get collected regularly that are fairly rat proof.

[@Moms1958]

Still Rats running around but not as bad as NYC

[@annetteslife]

What about East Hastings where it looks like garbage Central of Canada because of the population of the homeless and hookers living there?

[@spicspann4861]

Yeah, just take a stroll down the ally behind my apartment, rats are everywhere.

[@ReggieRegenold-uq2bz]

🙏 🙏 🙏. TRY TO.HAVE A SAFER HOLYDAY 🆗. ✌ AND 💘

[@unsocialbutterfly5760]

I’m Australian but I lived in Manhattan for almost 10 years. I think part of the issue is that the trash is in the streets in bags and not in big bins like in other countries. When you lay in bed at night, you hear the rats fighting outside 😮 When it snows, the trash bags just pile up into giant mountains, right outside the entrance of your building, because the trucks can’t get through at all, sometimes for weeks. I never understood why they didn’t have big wheelie bins, its not rocket science to know it would help the rat problem, but they just had the trash in bags on the street 🤷‍♀️Sounds like finally they are changing that! It’s really interesting to see how NYC has changed since I was there 15 years ago, thank you for doing your videos, I really appreciate them.

[@danmur2797]

Even in the U.S., most other major cities use bins to dispose of trash/rubbish. NYC is unique in that, that is how they get rid of trash.

[@actuallyitisrocketscience]

I can’t believe a major city like NYC is so far behind the times. I live in Florida. We’ve had the garbage and recycling containers with automated pickup for around 20 years here, and I’m in a rural suburb. Any apartment buildings have either trash compactors or dumpsters. Putting out garbage bags will get you fined. You’d think a big city would be ahead of us in technology.

[@RoySATX]

Same here in San Antonio, Texas. Cleanliness and common sense, just two more reasons Texas and Florida are so popular.

[@OG_Sneert0130]

@@RoySATXyou could say, just better.

[@morgenkelly8642]

But there's tons more space in a suburban residential area for trash bins. As Cash pointed out, if every unit in NYC has a dedicated bin, it would take up the whole sidewalk.

[@McRemmyBaby]

NYC is too busy counting up $$$$$$$$$, rent is ROBBERY

[@Imlastudios]

Have u tried calculating the numbers n cost. U know why stop it lol.

[@KingLarbear]

This is the reason I want to pay $6K a month for a home the size of a closet. Wonderful.

[@tammycowan4972]

I like to watch your videos because it’s crazy comparing what it’s like to live in NYC to other parts of America. I’m not sure why anyone is staying there at this point. We vacationed there in 2014 & it was awful then. There are amazing places you can raise your children out here. I hope you find your way out of there.

[@russellkeeling4387]

Don't tell them that. I hope they all stay there, I don't want them crapping on the rest of the country.

[@GAGONMYCOREY]

BIDENS AMERICA

[@Maribel1998_]

Most couldn’t live there for five minutes, you got to be brown or black to live like this

[@jmason2838]

. . Out where ?🙂🤗🍀☮️

[@barb679]

My coworker who lived there and delivered food to the restaurants, said ALL of them are rat infested. YIKES

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

You know why so many NYC restaurants have ":low lighting": it;s NOT for "ambiance" it;s so you dont SEE mice or rats running beneath your feet under tables.

[@crystalharris7394]

🤢🤮🤢

[@anxel-]

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Cockroach too🪳

[@brandong298]

It might be impossible not to have rats in a New York restaurant.

[@JanskiPolanski]

Istanbul has cats literally everywhere. People take care of them, stop their cars for them, look for their health, feed them, welcome them to chill whereever they like. No rats, very few pidgeons. Of course also a good idea to take care of the trash...

[@deonwalker6270]

I had a mouse living with me for like 1 year back in 2016/7 and that was so bad. I was constantly scared it would bring friends back or reproduce. In the end it either left or died in the walls because after I took the time to basically hermetically seal my flat it vanished. Was actually horrible, I used to hear it running through my room and banging against my headboard when I was trying to go to sleep. At the very beginning when I didn't know for sure if there was something in the flat or just in the walls it had taken to living IN MY BEDROOM WITH ME in a bookcase. It actually raises my anxiety just thinking about it 🤣

[@johansjournal]

such a cute story i hope the little stuart is alive and healthy

[@mollusckscramp4124]

@@johansjournal 🐁💕

[@moosky7344]

💛 Good job it wasn't there to snuff you out or after your body or possessions

[@metalmamasue3680]

Tomcat snap traps take care of mice very quickly and humanely. I live in a very rural area and they get in. As soon as you close one place up they find another. I keep traps under the sink and have no more issues, as soon as they find their way in SNAP and that's that. Sorry, but rodents carry ticks and fleas that spread diseases. Until we find and close up every place they get in, they are not staying here. It's way more humane than poisoning them, we have enough chemicals in our water and soil already. And they are done very quickly, before they even know what happened. They're not getting sick and dying a slow painful death by poison. That's a rough way to go and these chemicals are so toxic to humans and animals.

[@Markwaltonn5860]

They made a nest in your mattress

[@yamamancha]

So glad I left NYC. Even 20+ years ago when I lived and worked there, rats were a problem. I too witnessed a giant rat carrying a huge slice down the subway stairs. Running around in restaurants during dinner? Yep. Ugh, just thinking about it is disturbing!

[@angelarivas7579]

I saw a mouse inside a refrigerator in a pizza shop on 8th Ave near 57th St.

[@Karen-fd6rk]

Yup..the river rats are huge or sewer rats .

[@seankirby1327]

Your content has changed and in my opinion for the better. Thanks for mixing it up ! Oh just so you know the containers they are going to start using are very easy for rats to chew through. The lids do not lock and they are flimsy and even the ones you showed had already been chewed throughed. Most likely buildings with over 9 apartments already have stricker rule. They just are not followed.

[@lowwastehighmelanin]

Bedbugs, as a Californian, are such a problem here that if I can't steam or hermetically seal things I throw them out. Terrified of transporting them to my dad's in NC.

[@donnah5378]

A relative of mine lives in a senior building in Bklyn and it has rats. The maintenance guy is not able to help. It’s sad 😮

[@Irepeatthisisnotatest]

I just visited NYC and it was soooo crazy to me to see garbage bags just sitting on the street. Where I’m from, we have to put our garbage in containers. Apartment buildings with 100+ apartments do this and it’s fine.

[@bunnyfreakz]

And yet rent in NYC just so absurdly high.

[@Ms.Tee65]

As a NY’r I don’t understand how they don’t use containers. So stupid

[@InflatableConan]

We're the rats. The rodents are the clean ones.

[@PLuMUK54]

In my city in England, they decided a few years ago to start using wheelie bins. Certainly, in my area, the rat population plummeted. Obviously, there will still be rats. However, from seeing them daily, I actually can't remember the last time that I saw a rat. Containing the rubbish in lidded bins does work, but only if every property has to use them. There are parts of my city where black sacks are dumped alongside bins, where fly-tipping occurs, these are the areas where rats are visible and a problem. These are also often the areas where there is a lot of graffiti, and this is part of the problem. Excess graffiti suggests that the area is not cared for. An area that looks uncared for means that people take less interest in the environment. Litter therefore increases. The litter attracts rats. The more run down an area looks, the less people care for it. Dealing with the rat problem is not solely the job of local government. However much money is thrown at the problem, if the locals don't play their part, then the money may as well just be poured down the drain.

[@dimitar297]

Close the borders and the rat problem will disappear.

[@TuckaBuck89]

Kind of goes along with the "broken windows" philosophy of policing. Overlook the small problems and the neighborhood deteriorates and crime inexorably increases. You are correct- locals need to play their part. Need to take some responsibility, take some pride in the area, and don't expect someone else or government to do everything.

[@LarsFredrickson]

Of course, the Brits have it all wrong even though they have been dealing with Rodent infestations forever and a day. The NYC politicians would rather reinvent that wheel than use a solution already in play that works.

[@LarsFredrickson]

@@francesbrown5116 RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA

[@macdonagh313]

I spent the month of July in London and one thing I was surprised with were the number of fox running around the city at night. I would imagine they play role in keeping down the rar population, as they have to eat something.

[@aradesh1134]

One might argue that the rats are only one of the infestations plaguing NYC.

[@tonytiger9020]

Like illegals 🙉🙉🙉🙉

[@DoreenBellDotan]

Exactly.

[@DrBernon]

Do you think the rats are a consequence of some other infestation? 🤔

[@crystalharris7394]

😂😂😂

[@FC-qe1wl]

YEP.. I lived in my house for thirty seven years and NEVER once seen a cockroach, until last summer when south americans moved in three doors down. And now I see the roaches...

[@brushylake4606]

"I don't think rats can pick locks." This is the Big Apple...I wouldn't be surprised.

[@Emmy-J]

Mayor Adams was making a speech on the immigrant crisis and a rat crawled down the wall and across part of the floor behind him.

[@patdonnelly9392]

Even rats ignore his speeches!!

[@samson6983]

😂😂😂😅 I like that comment. You right ✅️

[@ShawnJustShawn]

😂

[@SlickDonaldRichard-rk94]

That was Eric's cousin.

[@nickelbutt]

I have lived in and around NYC my whole life, and to this day, I still do not understand why New Yorkers pile trash bags on the sidewalk. It’s totally absurd.

[@CornPop09090]

NYC will end up like San Fransisco, courtesy of democrap party

[@Automedon2]

The trash collection that uses trucks with arms that pick up the containers are impossible in most parts of NYC because of the cars lining the streets. It has to be picked up manually. That's why the trash bags are left at the curb

[@uptowndunker6346]

City has many problems that contribute to, you can start with the currupt politicians

[@PLuMUK54]

​@Automedon2 Here in England, the wheelie bins are taken to the lorries (trucks) by the dustmen (trash collectors). It's not necessary to use black bags.

[@Automedon2]

@PLuMUK54 when cars are parked closely down a city street that is not possible

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

Bed bugs can crawl over walls (and very fast, too!), so a ledge isn't going to stop them. You're not likely to find them in kitchens or living rooms either, they prefer mattresses, night stands, peeled off wallpaper, books, magazines . . . anything close to their food source, the human body. Glue traps help, but you'll never catch all of the critters. One survivor will live for months without food and produce hundreds of eggs. In some places the things have gotten resistant to insect sprays, plus you have to be very careful if you have a cat, as some pesticides will damage your pet's nervous system. 🙄

[@evegasse6999]

They can most definitely be in living rooms. I used to live in a big building that had an infestation and unfortunately it spread to my unit and the first spots they went to were my bed and my couch. Thankfully I caught it early and they treated it and I moved away.

[@theoriginalbridgetconnors]

Bed bugs live on average 40 days without food and a female lays one egg a day.

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

@@theoriginalbridgetconnors Findings appear to differ. In the course of her lifetime a female will produce about 200 eggs and the critters are supposed to live about 70 days without food.

[@theoriginalbridgetconnors]

@@hubertvancalenbergh9022 I got my info from a Scientific American article, so argue with them about it.

[@kc9scott]

@@theoriginalbridgetconnorsI’ve heard that the maximum theoretical lifespan without food could be a year; more practically, in a typical bedbug population you might have a few individuals that survive 6 months without food.

[@Boomken76]

The fact NY City dose NOT have a unified trash system should tell you everything you need to know to NOT live there. My city has had the auto lifters for trash for over 6 yrs now

[@vintageradios7790]

Back in the 1960s and early seventies the trash was picked up in front of your house three times a week. Starting in the late seventies the sanitation decided to cut back and pick up the garbage twice a week if the garbage was picked up three times a week that would definitely help

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

People vote for welfare... money has to come from somewhere.

[@mh8704]

Makes me glad that I’m living in a small town in Colorado. Nice and clean. We do have field mice but owls and hawks keep them under control.

[@joannjones3232]

In the small town I live in it’s almost $1000 to get rid of bedbugs. So most renters just carry them from house to house even if the landlord gets rid of them. So frustrating. And I’m speaking as a landlord 😕

[@isnoo1]

I owned a business back in the 80's in Perth Western Australia............... At the time part of the ground floor was a Cafe.... which we had no control of. Some of our guests came to us one day to tell us about the RATS running around in the the Cafe which could be seen from the street. Thankfully we were able to get the people out of there and were able to take over the Cafe and make it a part of our business. It took a LOT of work but we did it............ I know what it is like to have these pests/vermin in your life!!

[@robg7970]

I have heard that because rats in cities like New York city have access to so much, some rats have become alcoholics . They actively seek out beer to drink . Not to mention the fact that rats in certain parts also seek out certain foods because they always have access to certain foods they develop a craving for certain foods . Like .. duh ... pizza !! Rats are getting super fat off of pizza !! So yes , rats have developed a taste for certain things and it will only get worse if everyone that lives in those cities do not consciously prevent them from taking over .

[@PeteQuad]

Yes we have some rats that became partial to Scotch and will only drink it. They have a preference for a 12 year old Ardbeg which we can't keep up the supply of.

[@CatsPajamas23]

@@PeteQuad 😂

[@alima3304]

Do they steal TV remotes while they eat their pizza and drink their beer?🤔🤔

[@ninettemurk7492]

They're like actual people!

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

Let them eat pizza as much as they want - ultimately they will develop Diabetes 😊

[@EHamden-q1g]

It really does have an "Infestation Problem" and they even have rats and roaches to deal with as well.

[@lv21987]

Omg ... too funny! We New Yorkers are so use to adapting to whatever thing is happening at the moment. For the first time in 40 years I've had mice in my midtown east apartment! This was a perfect "reveal" video! PS ... I haven’t been to a movie house since they found bed bugs in the last city wide invasion. Yeah ... enjoy a night at the movies with popcorn, as the bed bugs crawl into your coat from the seat and you bring them home!! Eeek!!

[@rnrtruestories]

dude! I've been binging your channel. Such great content.

[@yusakmatrunks]

"I may be a rat.. but I ain't no snitch" -NYC rat

[@auberginebear]

I lived in a low income housing building that got infested with bedbugs (this was before COVID), but was so afraid to say anything to the management because of the wording of our lease made it seem like if we couldn't prove we didn't bring them in somehow (they came from an apartment above ours on a sock that dropped on the windowsill during the height of summer, so our windows were open) and that we could be financially liable for exterminators and other costs we couldn't afford. So we lived with them for over a year, to the point that both my partner and I got cellulitis from it. Thankfully we were able to treat enough of our belongings for a move and put everything else in a very secure storage unit (we made sure of seals and everything so we weren't causing an infestation for anyone else), then left our stuff to starve them out. We've since gotten our stuff back and found it worked, but we lost all our bed and furniture that had been in my family for a few generations.

[@Bruintjebeer6]

Cities in the Netherlands have underground garbage collection. That reduced the rat and mouse population significant and it is almost no problem anymore

[@RunninUpThatHillh]

We got bed bugs from a U-HAUL (rural). Watch out!! It took us a year to get them out of our house. What worked was steaming and diatamacias earth. I sealed off my bedroom for a year (with all out stuff left in there) and they died. It was a great time sleeping on the floor in my living room all that time.

[@RandomShowerThoughts]

I feel like you cover nyc the best

[@manuelbdiaz]

I love your videos! Appreciate a logical approach that isn’t over sensationalized about our societal issues. Weirdly I still want to move to New York from Seattle. Would love to see a video on why people are still moving to New York despite all these issues!

[@nancymcclain2533]

Forgot to mention that they once carried Bubonic Plage. I grew up in Boston in the 50's and Rats then were the size of cats. There used to be a commercial with a child calling "Here Kitty Kitty" then pans to a huge rat eating under a kitchen chair. I don't remember what it was for but I do remember the size,... Wharf rats

[@waynewisecarver]

CASH has become the best correspondent on the net. He puts talking heads to shame, even shows you how lame they are by comparison, and without beating them up like he does Dunkin and Chipotle. I think he will change how news is reported nationwide.

[@PamelaBrandonChromeFoto]

Thank you for posting content that’s true!!!

[@cs8712]

15 minutes about bugs but not one mention of how this $5500/mo apartment is like 8 feet wide

[@YTAnalyzed]

A place like NYC requires insane amount of upkeep and maintenance. During its booming period, it had the support of maintenance, but once the hype is gone, it deteriorates pretty quick.

[@anxel-]

Bedbugs, cockroach 🪳mice and rats 🐀 The rent are so expensive for live like that

[@jimsullivanyoutube]

I think it was on the D train. I heard a man scream. I looked over and he was face to face with a rat who had crawled up on him as he dosed waiting for his stop. The rat seemed unconcerned.

[@evanssarpong5310]

😂🤣

[@VeronicaDavis-zv3mo]

He was coming or leaving Brooklyn in NYC God bless the man because I would have fainted

[@YoungDreezee]

I live in Abington, PA. Its right outside of Philadelphia. They have been using the bins that are used for the mechanical trucks that have "arms" that lift the bins and dump them in the truck. It really keeps the town clean.

[@comegetyourdose]

7:41 I thought someone was talking from under the couch 🤣

[@psychette8846]

You don't defeat rats and bed bugs, you just expand City Hall and created more elected positions....

[@JAF30]

Okay, so New York and the outer parts did not already have a standardized container for trash? That one caught me by surprise, pretty much every garbage truck here in the mid west is using standard containers and the side arm to dump trash into the truck.

[@davidhalley9795]

Luckily my old building in Brooklyn didn’t have issues with rats, at least on my floor. I left NYC in 2020 for CA. Within a month my new house had colonies of ants and after my neighbor started their landscaping we were fighting mice in the house and gophers in the backyard. All became under control. I flew back to NYC this past September and came across these spotted lantern flies at the Howard Beach station (JFK). One landed on my luggage. Then I noticed they were everywhere, crushed on the platform, flying into the subway car and people stomping on them. I made sure not bring them back to CA.

[@ryanstevens2722]

So why does Cash keep his family living in all of this filth, grafiti and trash???

[@RockyDylanBebb]

The “stop oil” painting at graffiti sign thing at 7:48 INFRONT of all the trash encapsulates the thinking of people in New York pretty well lmfao

[@kittybitts567]

The problem with living above the seventh floor is that no fire truck ladder can reach you in case of a fire.

[@warnegoodman]

that's not true. The NYC fire department has 100 meter ladder trucks.

[@JohnDoe-dp4kx]

I live downtown Paris, France and we face the same issue with rats all other the place. This started 3 years ago, I have never experienced that before for the last 25 years.

[@cooltrucly]

because the new yorkers have started moving to paris, maybe

[@beefstew4698]

@@cooltruclyno - the illegal muzz eez

[@marijolivitzky4336]

@@cooltrucly 😇😻😼

[@BlkDiesel]

One of the BEST CHANNELS on KZbin. Cash, your coverage is beyond the necessary and so needed. You have surpassed RENTALS along time ago. I think you have a larger calling than that, and you know that. Appreciate you and your craft. Blessings to you, your wife and family...

[@annaburns2865]

Watching KZbin on KZbin is such a new unique experience for me. Thank you sir for letting us watch your phone on our own phones. 😅

[@MaggieG121]

I live over 2500 miles from NYC and this video STILL creeped me out. I was born near NYC and I'm soooooo glad to be away from there!

[@nagone11]

Wow..such an accurate video....working on 46th street and 6th Ave and I've seen rats during the day dipping and darting..very disturbing. Since COVID when the rats generated unchecked, over 4 million and I believe that number is underestimated, we've been with this problem ever since. Don't know if we'll get control of it given the terrible way we just leave food all over for them. We've had rat problems before, but this infestation is beyond measure and given the city officials and the careless New Yorkers, we've got a massive issue that we have not properly addressed.

[@andrewlayton9760]

More like 4 Billion

[@nagone11]

@@andrewlayton9760 Nah bro that's way too high

[@andrewlayton9760]

@@nagone11 Are you sure?

[@nagone11]

@@andrewlayton9760 yeah

[@Barbara-dd3ry]

I visited NY once as the sun was setting glowing eyes began glowing ! I will never go back ! Bed bugs another story all together the are usually in wetter environments. good luck hope you aren't allergic.

[@MattGrossChannel]

I reside in Los Angeles and a few years ago I decided to go for a Tommy's burger at 4 AM. I saw a rat the size of a raccoon waddle across Beverly Blvd. I had no idea rats could get that big, and I almost crossed it's path.

[@VeronicaDavis-zv3mo]

I would have fainted.God bless u did not faint

[@connie473]

I have a friend who was in a SIXTH FLOOR, (6!!!), and her apartment got infested because they started nesting inside the walls and then they made holes inside her kitchen cabinets.

[@oldsoldier64]

Corruption in NYC starts at the top and runs all the way down to the pavement. What a sh@! Hole.

[@zoek9574]

Being high up is little protection sadly. I’m on the 7th floor and have had most types of pests.

[@deborahhovan6464]

You are an amazing journalist Cash! I live in the blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and in most communities we have volunteer clean ups every six months! It takes a village to clean up any area where you all live! I also recommend using peppermint, or lemon balm, or cinnamon, and many other herbs to combat any bugs and rats, mice, and other pests!

[@patdonnelly9392]

I always spray peppermint mist under my sinks, around doors and windows, and in closets.

[@samurairaven]

Manhattan isn't the only place in NY state. I was born and raised my entire life in NY, and in all the houses and apartments I've lived in, there was always an infestation. Most of the case for my family and I were the mice. I still live in NY, and even though I recently moved, I still see infestation of roaches, spiders, ants, flies, and especially the most known, rats. 🤢

[@ashleymyers3100]

Wow! Super informative 👌 loved this video. That is my worst fear getting bed bugs & bringing them back to my place when i travel. I watch Chelsea Callahan on KZbin & she said her 1st 5 NYC apartments had roaches, gross! For what ppl are paying for rent there shouldn't be any issues when it comes to pests. Moving is stressful enough. New York has never been the cleanest city & how could it be when ppl are living on top of each other like sardines

[@lizzabbott]

I watch Chelsea, too !! Love her channel !!

[@arthdenton]

If some of us move to Mars, what are the odds that the rats and the bugs will eventually follow? I would say close to 100%. Anyone disagrees?

[@Elhastezy888]

Nobody disagrees

[@subaruamazon]

Agree

[@lisab.1595]

Like apts with roaches. They exterminate that apt and the roaches just move next door or across the hall. It's a never-ending cycle.

[@rolieg81]

0% chance

[@guysumpthin2974]

Biblical plague & pestilence

[@michaelmonte3239]

I'm from Brazil and i'm not sure why, but it's very interesting to see these videos about NYC. And as far as I know the problems with rats it is a very old problem of the city.

[@lilyshade4124]

I remember coming into work at Trinity Place. The exchange was tearing up the floor for renovation. I am not lying when I say the sewer rats that ran up to us were the size of cats. I noped it off the trading floor with a quickness seldom seen outside of a race track.

[@sarahbradley3027]

NYC is laid out in a grid without alleys. There are only a few in Manhattan. Alleys can be a location for dumpsters. without them, all the trash must be left on the sidewalk in plastic bags. Rats can chew through most anything. They have no trouble with a Hefty bag.

[@WarrChyld-wg6xz]

Damn 69 was dragging the shit out that slice of 🍕 down them steps😂

[@AnaisAngot-y2l]

I live in Montreal and a few months ago I contacted the city services so they would come to pick up trash lying on the sidewalk for weeks. They also told me that the situation has gone worse since the pandemic.

[@steveguti6452]

Urgent emergency please join me in prayer for elderly neighbor Suzy & husband desvasted leaks that flooded entire apartment which is not livable they desperately need your prayers please pray for them God bless you all 🙏🙏🙏

[@MangaGamified]

I think they can start with disallowing(like literal law or something) putting trash outside(like in our village and malls), and more frequent garbage truck collection visits as much as they can. In my village it was not allowed to put garbage outside, even on trash day, no one was allowed to put trash outside until the truck arrives, when the truck arrives someone with a megaphone yells around the garbage collector is here, then everyone goes to a block away where a designated pick up spot where trash are placed, instead of the garbage collector going near to every nook and cranny home.

[@Lyons_T-BAG]

NYC is where they all go to become politicians. 🤣

[@JR-mg6mm]

The most underrated comment of the day

[@b.slocumb7763]

There was a segment on a PBS show where they showed the people with teams of dogs that go out at night to catch the rats, and they do a good job. GET MORE RAT CATCHING DOGS. And offer the migrants jobs in cleaning the streets and public places. They need the temporary work and the city needs the help.

[@dimitar297]

Migrants only want to destroy society not help out.

[@nancyneyedly4587]

There's also a rumour that cats are pretty good at catching and deterring mice and rats. But pest companies would disagree, mainly they don't want the competion cause cats do work. The problem is too large now for anything to work though. There is a theory that the Black Death /Bubonic plague happened because the cat population was depleted (killed off) by the catholic church due to Pope Gregory IX'x hatred of cats, thought they were satan or something.

[@hereweare2031]

I saw that show too!

[@cozenw3236]

Minnesota has a Boxelder bug problem. Showed up a a decade ago and exploded. Also, Asian beetle ladybug has become a problem too.

[@truckingwithtobee]

Bed bugs are awful to have. We had an infestation at a Indian health clinic. My business has a contract with them for cleaning. It was so hard to get rid of bc one of the employees kept bringing them from her home.

[@Ace01010]

The scariest thing I saw in this video was a outlet directly under a sink. Someone please let me know if thats standard.

[@TheMeganExperience]

Not unusual for garbage disposal or dishwasher electrical hookup .

[@incurableromantic4006]

There's no substitute for *community* - for people actually taking some sort of pride in where they live and feeling some sort of connection with the people around them.

[@ANIMALS_AND_MORE_moments]

Another interesting report about NYC. Thanks Cash.

[@1927su]

When I lived in Florida I would not let ONE CRUMB land on the floor. We kept only canned goods in the cupboard. Anything in cardboard, bread , pop tarts flour EVERYTHING went in our two refrigerators! Kept the roaches & sugar ants away.

[@denverdubois5835]

Exactly right! And if one cannot afford an extra fridge, one can at least buy glass jars or heavy plastic containers with tight lids, like Tupperware. That generally will achieve the same result.

[@yunglynda1326]

must keep grains and flours in fridge or in airtight seal containers.