A closer look
New York City subway system operates twenty-four hours a day and features over six hundred miles of active track, making it one of the most complex public works in the world, as well as a sprawling, multi-billion-dollar luxury condominium complex for rats; the transit authority routinely employs sophisticated extermination tactics, from poison bait traps to deploying actual feral cats, yet the rodent population continues to thrive with an almost supernatural resilience; these rats have adapted to the train schedules, learned to scavenge half-eaten slices of pizza with terrifying efficiency, and occasionally grow to the size of small dogs; at this point, commuters should probably just accept defeat and start swiping a metro card for the local wildlife, as the rats clearly have more control over the infrastructure than the mayor does
