Rats are gonna start giving guided tours of NYC.

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

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.

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

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

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

Big cities have absolutely lost their minds

Can never understand the appeal of living in NY NY. People seem to have this romantic view of the city. And maybe upscale places in the city are. But for the average Joe living there, it seems like an intolerable place to be in.

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.

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

They should get some advice from Japan. While on a 2 week vacation to Tokyo I didn't see a SINGLE piece of trash anywhere in the city WHILE also not seeing ANY trash can in the city. I'm still amazed and flabbergasted. This is mostly a culture issue. People are trashy without facing repercussions, and sadly, it's often considered normal.

Just imagine what goes on in those restaurant kitchens, I would never eat or order out anywhere in NY not knowing if there is rat crap on my food.

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?

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

15y ago i was in NYC. i was surprised at how bad the roads are compared to germany. garbage was dumped on the streets everywhere. Doors and windows, all crooked and crooked. at the airport it rained through the ceiling. 3rd world feeling.

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

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

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!

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

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

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’ 😭

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 UKposts videos!! Keep them coming !

Living in NYC seems like a punishment to me.

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.

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???

I visited there long ago, it was beautiful and clean, amazing food, and the atmosphere was calm despite being overpopulated WOW have things changed it's surreal

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

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.🤦‍♂️

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.

The people in NYC do not care about their homes. They elect people who dont care who dont do anything to help. All of the decent people that can move, move.

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.

5 grand for rent? Pluck you NY!

The next thing will be an outbreak of God knows what. Rat map on one left coast & a turd map on the other left coast. I also keep hearing mayor Adam's statement "New York has a brand"

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.

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

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.

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!

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."

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.

Just visited Manhattan last week and it was pretty pristine. At least compared to the thumbnail of this video. Sheesh!

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

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

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

Easy fix to the Dining shed policy is the flooring must be liftable/removeable for weekly/monthly clearing. Rats will chew through those wheely bins within a week, they need to be metal. And whilst I am not a New Yorker, it's clear that the sanitation dept needs more budget and stricter regulation to make sure that budget goes where required.

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.

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

the city is running out of money" yeah, right. the taxes are already crazy high, and $5100 a month for a 2 bedroom apartment thats completely fucking insane. if I had the misfortune of living there I would leave ASAP

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! Here in Greece we're cleaning the roads every morning and night never had this kind of problem

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.

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

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

Brooklyn having over 40000 complaints is insane. Budapest a city of almost 2 million sitting over 500km2 has around 150 complains a year.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

I live in rural Nebraska. The criminal elements are just as bad, here. Just more low key, but still obvious enough to see. Corruption has NO boundaries.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

so glad I left last year, living there was so depressing and not worth it for me.

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.

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

as a kid i always wanted to go visit the big apple but nowadays id be hard pressed to step foot into ANY major city in the U.S

hello cjordan , besides nyc in the 48 states - is the outdoor dining in chicago or san francisco - two of the bigger for good dinner fun. sure there are reports by eric adams - if this is on the street - that means the water sewer are polluted to how is even tap water for dinner. thought the beginning of the project of eating outside was the breathing of cvd19 period. restaurants were checking you had the card from the doc to let you in to eat. thank you for the update of nyc sidewalks. check with village restaurants are there food courts in oculus doing well. elle for path train out

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

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

Its the same way in Philadelphia. I've seen snakes catching rats and eating them in the city.

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.

Love that he goes from "the bed will probably go in this corner" and "no dishwasher but look at this faucet" to video journalism on city management crisis in new york

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.

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

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

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 !

Hello... I lived in Coyoacán in Mexico City... we have the same type of elements outside the restaurants since the pandemic and we don't have rats... the reason is that the New York government is not doing the right thing

I am so sad! I used to work in Manhattan and it was clean and beautiful back in 2012

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!

NYC should remove all the outside dining shades immediately. City has completely forgot that COVID time is over. Outside dinning shades has made the narrow streets more narrower. When city administrators will understand that.

I love how the acronym on the city garbage can is RTS. 😅🐭

Cash.. I wanna see a video about empty Office Spaces.. in Manhattan..try to get permission on that one. Good locations..

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

I can PROUDLY say I've never set foot in New York, and never will.

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.

New York getting rid of their rat problem? That's a bold statement. When you do let London and Paris know your secret. They've had a serious rat problem since before even Natives lived on Manhattan!