Those are not rats, they're politicians. They share the same common traits, don't ya know!

Too many dirty rats and too many dirty politicians. Which is worse??

I went there in 2019 and was amazed to see piles of trash 20 feet tall. The whole city smelled like urine and garbage. It was revolting. I can't imagine what it is like now.

Big cities have absolutely lost their minds

Rats are gonna start giving guided tours of NYC.

The 2024 annual budget for NYC is $107 BILLION. The city isn't short on money, it's bloated in corruption and incompetence. But this is what the citizens voted for so.....shrug.

Over consumption, single use, culture. Funny how convenience made everything far less convenient.

Why can't New York City deal with rats? I don't understand. I live in Seoul, South Korea. There are probably many Seoul citizens who have never seen a real rat in their lives. In Seoul, if you throw away trash that contains even a little food, you will be severely punished, fined, and opened to neighbors. If you put food waste in a separate bag in front of your house, it will be collected at dawn. Recycling is done thoroughly. If Seoul mayor had neglected as many rats as New York, he would never be able to participate in politics again and could be arrested immediately after a thorough investigation.

The city is more concerned with taking Care of illegals and spending the money on them!

If you want to get rid of trash. 1) Put your trash in a box. 📦 2) Slap an Amazon sticker on it.📠 3) Place the box by your door. 🚪 4) Wait for the box to be stolen. 🏃🏼‍➡️ 5) Repeat. 😅😂🤣 For Rats …. Get some advice from farmers who deal with rats all the time. How about outdoor trash can sheds for apartment dwellers?

I left NYC in 1973. I was 13. it was the same then! I briefly returned in 2006 to visit my brother. I returned again 10 times between 2010 and 2012 to take care of family business. NYC is nothing more than an urban cesspool! Always has been! Always will be!

When was this place not a dump ? I left there 20 years ago and I could not even visit there again , tall building and everything is loud and smells like 💩. No one has manners or courtesy, everyone in a rush , half the Infrastructure is crumbling , potholes like craters , traffic everywhere, subway smells like piss . I'm good . All American major cities are now 3 rd world 💩holes

its not a housing crisis.. its a leadership crisis!

The scariest thing is the mayor actually thinks he's doing a good job. He also thinks New York is the safest city in the country. You can't be any more detached from reality.

Honestly, that says a lot about the people who live in New York and not just the mayor who may not have the money or resources to educate the citizens there or have a solution to the problem that they themselves create in their neighborhood. Because everyone is responsible for keeping their neighborhood clean and not contaminating other neighborhoods and creating a decent place for all of them to live.

Thank You for showing us the side of NYC that not everyone knows about, Great video!! I’m a retired NYPD, I was born in Brooklyn and left for Florida In 2002… we have always had rats in NYC and most of the boroughs… but not as bad as now. It is the bad government and bad politicians. I will always be a New Yorker at heart. Would definitely not move back! I have been in Florida for over 20 years and never have seen a rat and we don’t put our trash out in bags, nor do the restaurants. Trash goes out the night before in bins. LOVE your KZfaq videos!! Keep them coming !

When I went to NYC, I asked my friend if the garbage collectors were on strike, and he said too calmly ‘nah, that’s just what it looks like here’ 😭

Funny thing is....I visited Japan, Tokyo and Niigata. Didn't see a single vermin in Tokyo. I blame culture and the politicians.

Chicago has a program called 'Cats at Work'. They release feral cats to try to keep the city clean from rats.

You could already hear that in 1977 in the song by MFSB - Let's Clean Up the Ghetto in which the rat problem was described. Nothing seems to have improved over the years. Based on the rat population, it can be assumed that the rats far outnumber the residents of NY.

Man this country’s just going down the toilet. I think what we’re witnessing is the fall of our great cities.

NYC…where the birds fly upside down because there’s nothing worth shitting on.

Just so im understanding this correctly, New York doesn't have money to clean up and hasn't had money in the budget to clean up the trash; buuuuutt they have millions of dollars for illegal trash to move in and add to the already existing garbage problem. Did I understand that correctly???

Bro… i just stumbled onto your channel today. Holy shit! You are really good! I love your production style too with the playing clips on your phone and man on the street reporting. Exceptional work my man. Hard subscribe.

Living in NYC seems like a punishment to me.

If government keeps failing, it's up to the people to organize and come together and make changes. Until they come together and stand up for themselves, nothing will change.

Farewell america it was nice knowing you frankie boy. New york new york

5 grand for rent? Pluck you NY!

What happened to yesterday's good episode??? They are removing your stuff for being too informative now? wow

I don't understand why it is city council's problem to remove the trash - in my country each building's landlords are sharing the costs of garbage disposal and it's been like that since forever. - if you can own the property but can't afford basic facilities you shouldn't own the property - simple as

Man warding off a rat infestation in a one story family home is hard enough (from personal experience) but i couldn't imagine the difficulty trying to rat proof say a third floor apartment, sure you could block off the rats from three sides but they can still climb the exterior wall and get in elsewhere. Then it depends on everyone else in the building to be on the same page, meanwhile there may be vacant apartments loaded with rats too. What im noticing though is the issue with litter everywhere, even if everyone in the entirety pf NYC got on board for one day or week for a cleanup effort, the city's lackadaisical pickup schedule would make those efforts pointless. Clean up trash only to stack the trash bags in the street to not get picked up. Im not from NYC but have watched as tourism and even locals slowly trashed my hometown in Florida, so it does kinda hit close to home in some ways.

You went from real estate agent to community activist. Probably not what you planned. You’re a journalist now and you’re doing a great job.

$5K for 2 bedrooms is OUTRAGEOUS

I was in Times Square for the bicentennial 1975/76. The garbage was so bad it looked like little mountains. So this is nothing new.

Food waste could be useful for composting and maybe even creating biofuels. Suddenly, we would be competing with the rats for all that yummy food trash. For example, the gas stove in that rat-proof apartment could use some methane instead of natural gas. Methane is not that hard to generate, and natural gas is a finite resource.

I'm a super of several buildings and I can tell you that people living in those buildings who trash up the place doesn't make the rat problem any better.🤦‍♂️

The wall graffiti and curbside garbage adds so much ambiance to these outdoor dining sheds

I am from Istanbul. There are about a million stray cats in my home town and all cities have their own amount… I don’t ever remember seeing a rat in that old ass town. Lived in NY too and Seems like I left NY in a good time because rats are the size of cats now!

Why would anyone live in NYC? Even many of the rats have moved out, citing "disgusting conditions, even for us"

I live in the Bronx, where people throw a big slice of pizza and a food container on the ground. And these same people who do these things will be crying about rats and NYC being "dirty."

The stench of NYC in the summer with all that garbage makes me ponder why anyone would want to live there or visit there.

I just cant believe that the concept of bins is a new thing in New york? Are the streets actually where they should be dumping their bin bags at the moment? How have capital cities in Europe that were built long before public health was a concern adapted to ensure every property has bins but a relatively new city like new york not have the space? And people are saying that will make the problem worse? Just look at the success of everywhere that has made them compulsory.

I’m in Cali. I ate ONE time outside at one of my favorite Italian restaurant NEVER AGAIN!!!! Two mouse ran by my feet I holler and told the waitress to hurry up and bring my check

NYC will soon sell rat burgers. Cheap and high protein for those who can't afford a $20 Big Mac.

No such thing as a rat proof apartment. They can swim up through the plumbing and come out of the toilet in that $5000/month apartment. A rat or mouse can squeeze through a 1/4" hole.

So glad I grew up in the country. This looks terrible.

Eric Adams should call the Pied Piper.😂😂🤣🤣

Worked in IT in the city for 3 months. Within those 3 months installing networks and POS systems, I've seen rats in the back of restaurants, bagel shops, bars, and delis. When I started working in the city I would inform the owner that I saw a rat in the back near the food, they would say "oh it's ok, they are always back there." Keep in mind, food is always out in the open. Bagels just sitting on carts, containers are always left open, the floors only where you walk are clean, but under desks and behind desks are filthy. All near the food you eat. Don't get me started in the stories I heard about the old Shea Stadium. Doing the IT work there, I've been told underneath the stadium were filled with rats. You just can't get rid of them completely. Once I learned that, I never would eat in the city ever again. Just get a bottled drink at most. The city has been disgusting for decades.

My son visited NYC a few years ago and he said the smell was terrible. He said he couldn’t eat; his appetite was destroyed by the filth.

in spain they have large containers underground so above the joed is a small dustbin where you throw sooty rubbish they land in a large container below. which has a lift system that the garbage trucks use when emptying. that way there is room for more rubbish and the street. looks more clean and tidy

So interesting Cash...thank you

It’s been so interesting to watch this channel go from ‘here’s this cool apartment’ to ‘NYC is on fire’

I grew up in NY. When I was a kid I rode the Subway from my house in Flatbush, Brooklyn to my high school in Manhattan. Disgusting! Drunken bums sleeping. Beggars and thieves eveywhere. I was robbed at knife point. NYC is our civilization's version of Ancient Rome. When I was young it occurred to me that in NYC it is not possible to take a single step without putting your feet where someone has either Spit, or Vommitted sometime before you were there.

You lost me. When you said you would be terrified 😢😢😢 😅😅😅 Twinkel Twinkel.

Here in Amsterdam we have underground trash containers on the corners of the street. Very convenient.

Why would anyone live there? It's an expensive garbage dump.

I was there last month and the amount of filth I saw was stomach turning. The ritzy areas were a little better but overall nyc is a dump. I hate that restaurants are allowed to set up space on the streets blocking traffic. The mayor is doing a poor job and needs to step down, he’s in a failing position.

All this building of cheap crappy apartments all over the country will overwhelm the infrastructure and this problem will follow shortly after! I live in Brevard Florida and they are building these dumps EVERYWHERE!!!

last time i visited NYC was early 2022, stayed at a hotel midtown and while it was pretty good, i always fell asleep and woke up to the sound of rats crawling on top of the ceiling walls. Mind you i live in NC in a small city surrounded by small forests & dense vegetation and I've Never had rat issues in the past 10 years. Cant seem to connect the dots there

I still cannot figure out why anyone wants to live in New York, or really any big city for that matter...

The problem is that some rats grew so big and now wear fancy clothes and have titles. They work for the local city you see.

I went to NYC in summer of 2015. I couldn’t never get away from the stench. I could only imagine how things got worse these days

Lol the Kacy Nistad homages. Excellent dude

They're missing the 'Do not feed animals,' signs.

I like how this channel has gone from being about the challenges of renting/living in New York City to being a channel highlighting how much of dystopia NYC is fast becoming!

i’m a new yorker and there are some places that are bad like this but many places that aren’t. Most areas I go to do not have trash on the ground or trash bags piling up. This makes New York look so bad and like it’s all so nasty and smelly and ew but I love my city and there is plenty of beauty and CLEAN areas here (and not just where the rich people live either)

I saw a video of the mayor in the city hall a couple months ago and one ran across the stair landing behind him. Nobody even mentioned it

If people dumping trash is a problem, it means waste management at a macro level isn’t working. But rather than increase pickup frequency, or number of workers, they monetize the problem through fines.

This channel is absolutely tanking the NYC market - love it

When homeless in new york city .I saw early morning another homeless guy come out of a pile of trash bags..slept under for warmth.💡

When I watch these videos about how nasty it is in NYC I am so thankful I live in my nice home in Florida!

I can’t believe the “greatest country in the world” can’t do something simple like waste management.

As a midwesterner, I don't understand this or the appeal of dirty big city life..I don't feel safe visiting NY anymore. Its not the rats, it's the people and the policies!

Something like 6-8 Thousand people moved out of N.Y. Last Two Years ....By Your video, ive Never seen New York So Empty !! Wow..

Damn! The rats 🐀, the Rent ! 😮 though for a two bedroom. $5100 a month f..t that.

I always thought it took an army to destroy a country. Never thought in my life it would be its own people.

It’s a cyclical problem of apathy. People who live around constant filth wherever they go eventually become apathetic and contribute to the trash on the streets. What we’re looking at is decline of civilization. “They” want this for every major city.

"We have to increase density of cities!" Dense cities:

Melbourne Australia is very similar to NYC....councils do not pick up garbage and the once lovely streets are infested.

ANTI RAT LEGISLATION 😂😂 they’re gonna have their lawyers send them a cease and desist 😂😂

I believe we dont have anyone in charge who genuinely loves NYC and wants to do better... just some politicians doing better for themselves...

Washington DC is filled with rats the size of cats also. We stayed in a hotel on M St, looked down from the pool area at the top of the hotel and the rats were running all over in the alley. We got up early in the mornings to walk, and there were dead rats in the streets, roadkill. A guy with a truck was picking them up, apparently before ppl saw them. Was disgusting.

Yes.. ! those sliding doors in that apartment are nice..!

If you have rats in City Hall, you'll have rats on city streets. It's not complicated.🕳

Years ago a news program set cameras up inside a few NYC restaurants to see what happened after they closed. Done in both dining rooms and kitchens. It was absolutely horrifying with every surface covered with rats. Add to that the fact that they (and mice) urinate continuously as they scurry around.

I really want to visit NYC, but I’m not sure I want to anymore from what I’ve seen these past few years

Wild horses could drag me to visit New York. It's not only DISGUSTING, it's DANGEROUS. 😢

“The city is short on money” I’m sorry… what?!! That should be impossible, that city taxes pretty much everything and the very shop/business keeps rising prices…. Where did the money go?

Really appreciate the sunlight Cash is putting on real problems. Yeah, he is focussing on the worst of NYC and not the best, but the best doesn't need fixing, the worst does. And the worst needs to be addressed. Politicians are great at ribbon cutting, issuing press releases, holding press conferences, and proposing and passing new laws, which is fine, but they often don't seem aware of the real world or the consequences of their decisions. Cash is living in the real world and keeping it real. Go Cash!

What a mess, we've decided to cancel our summer vacation to NYC. I feel sorry for the people that live there and maybe can't leave. The taxes and rents that you pay and the city can't afford to collect garbage! Maybe drop it off at the mayor's residence, and then you will see action.

The poor rats just want to survive, and have shelter/food, but obviously they can't just move into city stores/eateries/people's homes and be welcomed. The people who litter and companies who dump garbage on sidewalks in easy to tear trash bags that smell, invite the rats/mice to scavenge and feast on the food. There's too many people in New York and not enough garbage cans, or trash pickup trucks to haul the stinky trash to the dump. The N.Y. Mayor needs to hire more workers to clean the streets/pay them well/schedule more trash pickup days, and not dump the problem on the residents/restaurants/companies

I had 1 rat who made my life a living hell when I was renting my first home a long time ago. I kept everything spotless so it made me go crazy thinking how I could make it go away without killing it. Buttt, the final straw was when I left my sausage dog on the counter and went to poop for like 3 minutes and when I had came back the rat had taken it under my fridge. Total pos, had to kick ratatouille to the curb. I could only imagine living in a city where there are more rats than humans. Good luck NYC, bad things are coming unless there isn’t some sort of major change.

Yes, those "outdoor dining" sheds were supposed to be only temporary. They were part of a contrived crisis, that has long-since passed. We need to get rid of them, and bring back street parking and traffic lanes.

I was running an errand in jacsonville [floridian here] and going down 95...i saw this really nicee ford explorer from ny and driver was throwing his candy wrappers outside his car. Florida is one of the cleanest states which is very populated. Keep it clean. Dont be a litter bug.

What is really sad is that New York's dump stations they take all this stuff out on barges and dump it into the sea

These videos are great, like watching a documentary on a 3rd world trash pit.

THIS WORKS FOR RATS - Baking soda and corn muffin mix 50 /50 mixture . I tried everything I could find for years to ride my Fathers garage and finally found this on YT that a farmer said . It flipping worked !

Y’know I remember the Kurt Russell, Science Fiction movie “Escape from New York” where a wall was built around Manhattan and turned into a prison. The prison had a simple concept. Once you go in, you don’t come out! What a great idea it would be to build an entire wall around NYC and do just that!

Still don't understand why would you choose to live in a expensive shit hole 😂

rats eat right through those crappy fiberglass trach cans