Rat Trap Map: These Are Wash Heights, Inwood's Rodent Hot Spots

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — There comes a time in every New Yorker's life when we must ask ourselves, do I live in a rat hole?

The city is here to help answer that very important question with a very disturbing map that tracks rat sightings on a street-by-street level.

Washington Heights and Inwood residents take note: the Rat Information Portal map shows neighborhood parks, including Fort Tryon Park, J. Hood Wright Park, and Highbridge Park, are very much hot spots.

There were also noticeable rat-hot spots in residential areas.

• West 165th to 168th streets between Fort Washington Ave. and Riverside Dr.
• West 173rd to 176th streets between Broadway and Fort Washington Ave.
• West 186-189th streets between Overlook Terrace and Fort Washington Ave.
• West 196th Street + Ellwood Street between Nagle and Broadway avenues
• Park Terrace West between Broadway and Seaman avenues

On the other hand, there were uptown areas that were impressively rat free, including a stretch of avenues between West 164th and West 168th Street, and multiple avenues closer to The Bronx between West 187th and West 191st Street.

You can put your specific address into the map to see how your uptown block has done on its most recent rat inspection.

The breaks down addresses in all five boroughs in the following ways:

• Passed at Last Rat Inspection (Green)
• Rat Activity at Last Rat Inspection (Pink)
• Failed for Other Reason at Last Rat Inspection (Purple)
• Not Inspected in the Past 6 Months (Gray)

The map from the city's Rat Portal will also tell you the date of the address' last inspection, the number of inspections since 2015, and property information on the building.

You can check out the rat map for yourself — HERE.