Mr Sullivan cleverly uses the rat as a way of burrowing into New York's hidden history and forgotten men, such as Kit Burns, a rat-pit impresario, who ran the city's most popular entertainment in the mid-1800s until cornered by crusading animal-rights activists.
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Part of the road in Hermitage Way, Wooton, features metal teeth in a pit designed to stop cars using the road as a rat-run to the A45 dual carriageway.
BBC: Northampton rat-run 'car trap' ignored by drivers