It's really that I don't have any photos of rats in New York. I saw more squirrels. However, ever so often when one (or five) ran by I flinched thinking they're fluffy glamorous rats. My mind works in wondrous ways (not really, it's just all the rat stories one hears; many, so many). So here's a selection of Big Apple squirrels in action, from Bronx to Staten Island, captured on memory card in 2014-18.
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