--- description: Video appears to show a rat eating a bagel while sitting on a bagel that is floating on a puddle of water in a Brooklyn subway station. title: Here's a Rat Using a Bagel as a Raft image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Rat Uses Bagel as a Raft  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 22, 2016 9:30 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer Apr 22, 2016 9:30 PM CUT In what may be the most New York moment of the year so far, new video shows a rat appearing to use a bagel as a raft and dragging a piece of another bagel toward itself in the middle of train tracks at a Brooklyn subway station. The bagels all appear to be floating on a puddle. Sarah Chiwaya, a Fashion Editor at PLUS Model Magazine, shared the footage on Friday via [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/BEgpZPRNOD "undefined"). Videos of rodents eating iconic New York foods in the Big Apple has become a trend online over the past year, from the “pizza rat” video of a rat dragging a [slice of pizza](http://time.com/4043383/rat-pizza-slice-subway/ "undefined") down stairs at a subway station to the squirrel that plucked a [Shake Shack milkshake](http://time.com/4046272/milkshake-squirrel/ "undefined") out of a trash can. (h/t [DNAinfo](https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160422/prospect-heights/video-rat-drags-bagel-on-top-of-floating-bagel "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4305455/bagel-rat-floating/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4305455/bagel-rat-floating/"},"headline":"Rat Uses Bagel as a Raft","datePublished":"2016-04-22T21:30:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:47.572Z","description":"Carbo-loading","url":"https://time.com/4305455/bagel-rat-floating/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4305455/bagel-rat-floating/","name":"Rat Uses Bagel as a Raft"}}]}] ```