- The video shows at least three of the rodents in Royal Queen, Flushing, Queens
- Two rats are seen sniffing around boxes while another climbs onto the counter
- It is estimated that the rat population in New York is booming after the Corona crisis
Rats were spotted in dark footage running around a Chinese restaurant in New York at night.
Video captured by a passerby shows at least three rodents at the Royal Queen restaurant in Flushing, Queens.
The rats can be seen sniffing boxes and in and on a hot food counter at the dim sum restaurant.
Recent research from New York-based pest control company MMPC suggests that New York City’s rat population has increased from two to three million rodents since 2010, post-Covid.
That means one for every two to three of New York’s 8.5 million residents.
A sinister video has emerged showing three rats running around freely at New York’s Royal Queen Chinese restaurant.
Footage from the restaurant in Flushing, Queens, shows two rats scurrying around cardboard boxes while another sniffs around a hot food counter
The video begins with the unnamed person behind the camera zooming in on the restaurant’s serving area to a row of boxes, in front of which we can see a rat.
Another soon appears a little further away behind the box.
Panning to the left, we see a third rodent on the hot food display, which still had some contents in it, before the shot zooms out again and the restaurant’s logo becomes visible on the television screens above the counter.
The Royal Queen restaurant has been contacted for comment on the shocking footage taken on September 28th.
However, this is not an isolated case. In September, a darkly ironic video emerged of a rat crawling around the health sign of a New York restaurant.
The large rodent was spotted by a stunned pedestrian through the window at Dixon Place in Manhattan on September 17th.
In general, rat sightings on “RatTok” have gone viral, with New York being a hotspot for the clips.
After reported that New York City has become so infested with rats, there have been a number of horrific encounters that tour guides are offering tours to the worst rodent-infested areas. Image left: A rat crawls around a restaurant’s health sign. Right: “Dozens” of rats emerge from a trash can on the side of the road
One such video was taken on August 30 and shows “dozens” of rats emerging from curbside trash cans, forcing a group of five New Yorkers to literally jump over them as the rodents frantically scurry up and down the sidewalk.
Taryn Brady, 29, who filmed the incident, said she was left in “fear and disgust”.
These horrific encounters came after reported that New York City has become so infested with rats that tour guides are offering tours to the worst rodent-infested areas.
In April, New York City Mayor Eric Adams appointed the city’s first “rat czar.” His annual salary of $155,000 shows how serious the problem is in the region.