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Enter the rat map. On a recent patrol, Mills and his colleague Bobby Corrigan, a doctor of rodentology who also works for the New York City health department, were back in the Bronx, on West 184th Street. The target was an abandoned house sprayed over with graffiti - a vestige of the way much of New York used to look 20 years...
...slip by, grease marks from rat hair along a concrete wall - it all gets noted and pinpointed on the map. "We train our inspectors to see what everyone overlooks," says Corrigan, echoing Sherlock Holmes. "This is a living laboratory. There's probably 100 variations in rat colonies in New York as to how they behave...
Last November, a version of New York City's rat map was made public (first-time visitors may not be able to access the map immediately; send an e-mail to ratportal@health.nyc.gov to learn the workaround). You can search by zip code or exact address for information about the number of inspections or notices of violation at a given property. The interface of the public map is a bit clunky and hard to navigate, which may be why the city is sponsoring training sessions for community groups and other interested organizations. "We do hope to make this a bit more...
...Tribune—announced its filing, the chain was wracked by layoff and forced buyouts. The Times alone lost 150 staffers—17 percent of its employees. Smaller chains, like McClatchy, are close to defaulting on their debt, and even giants like The Washington Post and The New York Times are making cutbacks.While the decline of print journalism is an unfortunate development, it is also an inevitable one. The Internet has pulled subscription and advertising dollars out from under newspapers, and free services like Craigslist have replaced previously profitable classified ads. Fighting to preserve current print circulations...
...married to Thomas Downey, a former Democratic congressman from New York; she has one son from a previous marriage. Downey is chairman of a lobbying firm with dozens of clients, which until Dec. 12 included several with interests in energy policy, according to the company...