Chipotle worker "killed two rats with a stick." The other rats wanted payback.

Wednesday December 9, 2020 [Advertisement: click here to check out lemonade and get your stuff covered in seconds]( ADVERTISEMENT [Manhattan Chipotle Workers Bombarded By Ginormous Rats, Storefront Overrun]( [A roughly 1.5 lb. rat caught seen at a Chipotle in Washington Heights (left); an avocado claimed by one of the location's rats (right)]( [An army of blood-thirsty and guac-hungry rats are chewing their way through a Manhattan Chipotle, according to freaked out workers who say management failed to act even after they were bitten.]( [Advertisement: click here to check out lemonade and get your stuff covered in seconds]( ADVERTISEMENT ICYMI: More Stories From Today [Governor Andrew Cuomo during a press briefing last week in Albany.]( [New York Could Receive Pfizer Vaccine Doses This Weekend]( Nursing home residents and staff along with "high risk" healthcare workers will be the first to be vaccinated. [snow in brooklyn, from a window]( [I Can Confirm It Is Snowing]( After nine months of isolation it can be difficult to discern what is real and what is fantasy, but I can definitively confirm that what I'm seeing outside of my window right now is snow. [Oil rig]( [New York State Pension Fund Pledges To Drop All Fossil Fuel Stocks By 2040]( DiNapoli, the state pension fund's lone trustee, had previously rejected calls to divest on the grounds that it could hurt the portfolio's financial performance. [Confit Duck Necks ($13), Dad's Fried Rice ($14), Blazed and Glazed ($19), Best-Brussels-Sprouts-You-Will-Ever-Eat ($12)]( [New Destination-worthy Vietnamese Spot Opens In Brooklyn]( When Henry Trieu had to close his Vietnamese restaurant, his longtime friend Eric Tran bought it and reopened it under the same name. [Poll workers count absentee ballots while wearing masks and separated by plexiglass]( [Lawsuit Seeks To Block The Start Of Ranked-Choice Voting Next Year]( The plaintiffs are represented by Frank Carone, an attorney with deep ties to both the Brooklyn Democratic organization and mayoral candidate Eric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president. [Photos of raccoons who live in Riverside Park]( [Incredible Falling Raccoon Rescue Caught On Video]( Police held out a green tarp to soften the fall while someone climbed the building to poke the raccoon from its perch. [The Croton Reservoir in the 1800s]( [Midtown Was Once Home To A Reservoir, "With Moonlight Dancing On The Water"]( As part of our month-long Dear NYC series, we're looking at city gems hidden away at the New York Public Library. Today: a reservoir in Midtown, which Edgar Allan Poe called "beautiful." [Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.]( [Coronavirus Statistics: Tracking The Epidemic In New York]( These charts show the growth of COVID-19 in New York City and State, as well as in NYC boroughs. [Advertisement: click here to check out lemonade and get your stuff covered in seconds]( ADVERTISEMENT [Support Us]( [Gothamist on Facebook]( [Gothamist on Twitter]( NYPR Network [WNYC]( [Gothamist]( [WNYC Studios]( [NJPR]( [WQXR]( [New Sounds]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} from this list]( Â Â Â [update subscription preferences]( New York Public Radio · 160 Varick Street · New York, NY 10013 · USA