Rat crawling on sleeping man on New York subway caught on video

A man was filming because he'd never seen a rat in a subway car before.

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New Yorkers are quite familiar with rats, whether the rodents are seen running down on the subway tracks or scurrying through trash on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

But a man riding the 7 Train recently got a nasty surprise when a rat got too close for comfort and he awoke to it crawling on his neck. See the video below.

Antony Kim posted the video to his Instagram account on March 27 and it has since gone viral, likely because it illustrates a collective fear among New York residents.

"I started filming because I've never seen a rat in the car before," Antony Lin told ABC News. "Just to see it was shocking."

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