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By Jeongyoon Han

HAN: The council member in question, Shaun Abreu, knows a thing or two about rats. When he was younger, rats chewed up his grandmother’s furniture and infested his uncle’s closet.

SHAUN ABREU: Rats are a very New York City problem.

HAN: So when Abreu saw Mahaney’s tweet, he met with the sanitation department to figure out a solution. They came up with a pilot trash program in West Harlem where people dump trash into large containers the size of about two parking spaces.

ABREU: The best way to handle it is by shutting off the food supply.