A rat map that shows NYC’s restaurant rodent takeover

Continuing with the New York City theme, Steven Melendez has created a colorful map of rats in the Big Apple.

As Nell Casey at Gothamist explains, Melendez created the map with restaurant inspection data starting from January 1st, 2013. The number of restaurants cited for “evidence of mice or live mice,” or “evidence of rats or live rats,” was compared to the total number of restaurants in each zip code to find the percentages in the color-coded map.

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