Working in Your Community

1. Use this website to make maps of your neighborhood and distribute them to your neighbors
2. Identify the properties and street areas that have failed inspections for rats
3. Inspect those same blocks with your map in hand and look for where the rats are finding food, water, and places to live
4. Work with your neighbors to come up with solutions
   • Some BIDS sponsor new trash cans or extra trash pick-up
   • Help keep parks, sidewalks and green streets clean and uncluttered by disposing of trash properly
   • If rats continue to be a problem after taking these steps, consider hiring a pest management professional to service all of the properties or businesses on one block
   • Ask your pest management professional to inquire about classes at the Health Department’s Rodent Academy
5. Bring neighbors together and apply for a grant from Citizens Committee for New York City for your group's community improvement project. For more information and to download grant applications, please visit http://citizensnyc.org/grants.html

• Contact your Community Board
• Work with your Local Business Improvement District
• Help the Department of Sanitation by Adopting a Basket
• Volunteer to keep your local park clean and rat free
• New York City Rodent Academy
• Building superintendants and managers training
• Tree Planting and Care