NYC’s creepy Ratbubu is here to terrify your dreams, just in time for Halloween — but good luck getting one
New York is gross — and we love it.
A new pop-up is raising a big stink, celebrating the city’s signature grime with a cheeky collection of rat-themed merch and chaotic charm, including a sold-out Ratbubu — a tattooed and pierced Labubu dressed like a rodent.
The WELOVENYC “Comeback Collection” — featuring everything from creepy Ratbubu plushies to trash-bag earbud covers ($25), “Legal Cocaine” coffee mugs ($35) and “S–t Shield” sneaker guards ($12) — has true New Yorkers embracing the grit and grime of our beloved dirty city.
“It’s more about what New York is really like. The funky stuff,” Tanya De Poli, a co-creator of WELOVENYC collection, told The Post about the curious compilation, a collaboration between numerous New York artists, which drew a long line of locals to the dingy corner of Walker and Lafayette for its Friday night opening.
“Rats are a part of that, so why not play that up?”
