THE BRONX, New York (WABC) — A woman, whose Bronx apartment has been overrun with rats, is finally getting some help.
Cora Robinson has been dealing with the infestation in her apartment for nearly a year, and it has taken a serious toll on her health.
Robinson said she could hear the rats fighting in the radiator. She says she stuffed steel wool in the radiator and covered it with masking tape because they were eating their way out of it.
Experts point out that rats are crafty, and can squeeze through the smallest spaces, even the size of a quarter.
Robinson showed Eyewitness News the teeth marks.
Eyewitness News first met the 71-year-old on Saturday inside her apartment at 1777 Grand Concourse.
Anthony Carlo has more from the Bronx.
She filed complaints with the city about the rat infestation and repeatedly reached out to the landlord, Asden Management, which was cited in a tenant lawsuit in 2023 for alleged unlivable conditions. That litigation is still tied up in the courts.
Eyewitness News reached out to management but did not hear back.
“My doctor is worried because I am a breast cancer survivor, I don’t have a spleen, I don’t have any immunity,” Robinson said.
The ordeal has taken a toll on her entire family.
Robinson’s niece Sherene Morris lives in a third-floor apartment in the same building, where rats are destroying everything.
After seeing the Eyewitness News report, the owner of Positive Pest Management, wanted to help, and sent over an exterminator at no cost.
“These are filth flies. They are caused by the rats,” the exterminator said.
These are flies that land in rat feces, which can be transferred to Robinson. That coupled with the strong smell of rat urine, the exterminator broke the hard news to Robinson, and said it wasn’t safe for anyone to be inside the apartment.
The Bronx Borough president is now involved as the family navigates this very difficult, uncertain road ahead.
“She’s been through too much, too too much,” Morris said.
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