By Gus Saltonstall

Rats. Lots and lots of rats.

Over the past month, West Side Rag received multiple emails from troubled Upper West Siders about a swarm of rats that has been appearing in front of the Broadway Malls storage building that sits in the median at West 96th Street.

The building is just opposite the 1 line subway station entrance at 96th Street. Multiple eyewitnesses said the rats emerge in front of the Broadway Malls building after someone has scattered crumbs and seeds, apparently meant to feed birds.

“I’m beyond horrified,” Jane Sherwin, who has walked by the swarm multiple times, wrote in an email to the Rag. “People feed the pigeons and then the rats eat them!”

Stephen Dicker, who also emailed about the rat issue on West 96th Street, wrote, “While we regularly see rat

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