O.K. where is Greenwich Village anyway? I don't understand how it became a problem overnight?? Did the people eating there daily not notice? I know rats multiply fast but really. Secondly, how hard is it to go buy a few rat poison bricks and the problem is over in a couple of days.
Then it would be a little more involved than a few rat bars. :hihi: I've never been but would imagine the underground world there would be pretty heavily infested but it could still be taken care of.
Greenwich Village is between Downtown (Manhattan) and Mid Town (Times Square, etc.) It's a College/Bohemian type place for the most part with a lot of gays thrown in. That store looked like any one of a thousand joints in NYC. I don't think I'll be frequenting any of them soon (and I'll be there two weeks out of this month).
Trust me, every restaurant has issues with rats and roaches, especially those in old buildings that they share with other tennants. I have a couple of friends in the restaurant business in Louisiana and they both use some serious pest control measures. The amount of poison used to control pests in restaurant kitchens and storerooms is almost as disturbing as rat turds. You can't get away from it. Food processing factories, grain elevators, and meat packers have serious rodent and insect issues. Federal regulations for many commodity foods spell out the specific number of rat turds and dead insects per 1,000 cubic feet of product that determine whether the batch is approved or rejected. The number is not zero.
I imagine that food inspectors in New York are handled by the Guidos that collect protection money from the restaurants. You know, take $100 and approve the place or reject the place and get your arm broken. It's hard to imagine any restaurant getting that bad unless the inspectors were turning a blind eye. Filthy kitchens and slovenly cooks are one reason I frequent waffle houses and diners when I'm on the road. You know, the kind of place like Louie's Cafe where you can sit at the counter and watch the cook prepare your food. The kind of place where if they drop the toast on the floor, they actually throw it away instead of brushing it off and putting it back on the plate.
