WATCH: Killer Rat Takes Down Pigeon in the Streets of Brooklyn

Screenshot via John Freund/YouTube

Pizza rat was just the beginning.

Here’s what you need to know about New York’s latest viral rat video, embedded below.

One, it was filmed in present-day Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where rat evolution has apparently progressed at a more frightening rate than in the rest of the city; and two, you might not care to watch it if you have a shred of pigeon empathy left in your cold New York heart.

Even then, though, you should probably watch it anyway — because the more you know, the better you can brace yourself for the Planet of the Apes-style rat invasion that will surely spell the end of the neighborhood if melting glaciers don’t get us first.

A bystander, presumably a friend of the videographer, sums up the gravity of the situation quite nicely when he says: ”I’m telling you, New York has, like, genetically mutated rats that are just like super, duper... They have superpowers.”

Yes, yes they do. And the squirrels do too.