Still, Ott says the pumped-up symbol of protest remains as potent today as it did two decades back. “The rat still stops traffic,” he said. “You don’t want to be on the wrong side of that rat.

Still, the video of the rat's failed attempt to traverse an escalator is both a well deserved form of rat justice and a symbol for living in New York City. Every day is a sprint. Every day is ...

Today, in labor hubs like Chicago and New York City, the rat is a familiar symbol of worker power. Its size ranges from six to 25 feet tall, costing anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000. Yet even the ...

Hey, somebody had to wake him up. NYCtheblog was the first to link the skin-crawling snippet of a rat rousing a man on the subway this morning and now it has gone viral.. Jeffrey Forde, a quick ...

The election symbol of the US Democratic Party has been changed to a rat within the Google search knowledge panel that shows when searching for the party's name, instead of the usual donkey-themed ...