When I ran away as a kid. During the cold weather I lived in a horse barn in the iron place. It was a scrap iron place. They used to have wagons pulled by horses. I was told it was the same barn joe Valachi lived in when he was a kid.

It was full of rats from the east river so they were water rats. Called norweign rats some were a foot long not including the tail. 2 of them could kill a cat. I would shoot them as a kid for fun with my friends.