Town and Suffolk County officials say there is "significant improvement" in a rat infestation discovered last month in downtown Huntington, and that the owner of a vacant property at the center of complaints is cooperating with efforts to eradicate the rodents there.

Meanwhile, the town's top sanitation official said more resources have been dedicated to the problem and that waste pickup in the village is not a factor.

“We’re on top of this,” said John Clark, director of Environmental Waste Management for the town.

In the coming days, inspectors will revisit all establishments that had been cited with violations in the wake of the initial discovery, a county health department spokesperson said.

The town received multiple complaints in mid-July about the infestation in the downt

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