Behold the Big Apple’s pest new fashion statement!
The city’s Sanitation Department is selling an anti-rat T-shirt with a haute-style $48 price tag that’s sure to send average New Yorkers scurrying.
The 100% cotton top features a cartoonish image of a scared rodent with red prohibition symbol through it alongside the slogan, “The rats don’t run this city. We do.”
The tough-on-vermin phrase was made famous in an October speech by Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who announced the city would leave trash bags on curbs for shorter amounts of time to give rodents less time to snack on them.
The pest-busting line went viral on TikTok and became a tongue-in-cheek mantra for no longer putting up with crap in life.
Priced like its fresh off the runway, the simple white T-shirt was designed by Sebastian Mejias, a Sanitation Department worker who serves on Brooklyn’s Community Board 5 in East New York.
The rat-centric retail was made in the Big Apple by the city’s official merchandise licensing vendor, NYC&Co, according to Gothamist. The shirt can be purchased online at onlyny.com.
The squeak-inducing price tag is in line with all other municipal-inspired Only NY shirts, a sanitation spokesperson told the outlet.
