Navigator: Rats! They’re just like us!
A much-loathed fixture of urban life for millennia, rats have been enjoying a population boom lately.
Photographer: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Welcome to today's edition of Navigator, CityLab’s biweekly Saturday newsletter.
Living in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, walking past rats as they skitter across sidewalks and station platforms is just part of urban life. There’s an entire park in the district’s Dupont Circle neighborhood that lives up to its unofficial designation as a rat sanctuary, at least when I’ve visited.