People are used to seeing rats, but not like this: dozens of them darting back and forth inside the gated section of Corona Plaza.
It's a popular hangout for residents and their children, but on Monday, the rats seemed excited to be here, too.
It's not uncommon to see rats in this community, but people were surprised to see them so brazenly out in the open.
The Parks Department referred the matter to the Department of Health, where a spokesperson said the problem would be addressed.
On Wednesday, there were inspectors and exterminators on hand for an emergency baiting.
The Health Department says it takes the infestation "very seriously." In a statement, the agency added, "In partnership with NYC Parks we have been baiting Corona Plaza regularly; the most recent baitings at this location were conducted on April 30, May 1 and yesterday."
It also said that workers would "continue to bait and monitor the area.
Some residents also want the city to crack down on people who litter.
"The people eat over here on the street. They throw inside," said one man who help plug up the holes.
"There are food vendors who shouldn't really be on the street because once they're done selling everything that they brought, they throw all the litter on the floor," San Martin said.
After NY1 reached out to the Sanitation Department, they told us they would send an officer to the area as well.
16 comments:
Get rid of the food carts! Many are illegal anyway.
Why don't they use those minty garbage bags that Mayor Watermelon Man(brothers and sisters) forced Parks to use with an illegal donation from the inventor to use as a straw donor so he can fail at gaining upstate seats for Dems. You know, those bags that the Parks dept. rejected back in 2007
see the Walk In the Park links on the right side
My neighbor said he saw 4 of them in just 2 weeks here in bayside. Never did we see so many rats out in broad daylight befofe. Usually I see them by the supermarket or by the mcdonalds early in the morning. But this is what happens when third world trash moves into a neighborhood.
Look at all the bike clutter. The workers couldn't even reach in.
I would capture every rat and send them to Janette Kahn's property, for these plazas were her stupid idea.
It's divine justice that the true residents of corona are against this now. They are going to see worse infestation when gross hyper-development gets built around there. Viva Big Slow!
Formula: Slob New Yorkers + lack of enforcement of litter laws = RATS & RODENTS
A formula that can be used for many of this city's problems
Your grandparents were probably third world trash, why don't you complain about them or shut up and do something to help improve things?
Rats are considered livestock in many of the third world central american shitholes these "Undocumented"/Illegal's hail from. Perhaps they just want a taste of home...
Dirty people. Dirty vermin. No other reason, or solution.
Reminds me of when I was car-travelling through Mexico years ago. Sunday nights in the central plazas, after the mariachis were finished with their gigs, the square was foot-deep in fressed-out corn cobs and hamburguesa wrappers. Garbage cans were overflowing with filth. Viva Mejico!
Hispanic "culture" can be slovenly. Corona is a Hispanic pig-sty.
Couldn't wait to drive back north into Texas.
Giuliani banned pet chimps, so why do folks in Bayside own pet pigs?
I'll never understand this city's insistence on treating the symptoms instead of the problem. Ticket people for littering and dumping garbage. Make the garbage cans widely available and then crack down on people who litter/don't pick up dog waste, etc. Stop wasting millions per year on pest control when the answer is simple and ultimately cheaper.
I have yet to see a clean and well maintained pedestrian plaza anywhere in Queens. Anywhere!
Anonymous said...
Your grandparents were probably third world trash, why don't you complain about them or shut up and do something to help improve things?
I have, I wrote to Cuomo and Schumer to stop allowing so much third world trash into this city. Third world garbage everywhere! You're probably one of those people yourself there!
My grandparents were the cleanest people in the world ...they owned a grocery store in Broklyn and an apartment bldg. You could eat off the floor at either place! Some ethnicities value cleanliness! their customers were clean also - Italians and Poles.
Funny...the pigs of Flooshing should be bringing rats, but you don't see that many. Maybe they wind up in the local stir fry.
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