Ideas to Solve New York's Rat Problem

Create fire pits to burn rats that happen to fall in.

Spread rat poison into their habitat

Good old fashioned rat traps. Lots of them l.

Find a gas poisonous to rats but harmless to humans and fill their environment with it.

Pay folks to kill rats

Develop special traps that attract lots of rats and kill them all at once.

Find and spread natural rat predators.

Develop a disease that kills rats but harmless to humans and spread it

Pump frozen water into their environment

Do some combination of the above while sealing off their ability to travel.