Beasts of Brooklyn: A Hard-Hitting Look At Our Borough’s Most Famous Animals
Marcy Houses Super-Rat
People were pretty freaked out when news broke in summer 2011 that this enormous rat — one of many, apparently — had been caught and killed in the Marcy Houses, but really, he most likely started off as someone’s pet. You see, this rat was in all likelihood a Gambian Pouched Rat, an extremely common pet around these parts until they were outlawed a decade ago. It was all a terrible misunderstanding.