Abigail clayton

My name is Randy Dupree. I'm the director of the Bureau for Pest Control, Department of Health of New York City.

We estimate that there's about one rat per person in New York City, which is anywhere from eight to ten million rats.

In 1969, we wrote a program called the Coordinated Flock Approach Program.

And what we did was identify the five areas in New York City that have the most complaints,

the most rat bites, and the greatest problems. Those areas were, at that time, in 1969,