Research mice leaving NYC for suburbs (AP)

NEW YORK - Things are getting so expensive in Manhattan that even the rodents are moving to the suburbs. A group of 35 hospitals and medical schools in the New York metropolitan area have decided to relocate their research mouse-breeding and mouse-holding operations in a new building in Yonkers. The building could eventually hold up to 80,000 cages — and 400,000 mice. The Yonkers facility would be the first multi-institutional "mouse house" in the country, said Maria Mitchell, president of ...