Bodegas are literally just gas stations without the gas, IDK why NYC thinks they're the only city in America where you can go to a convenience store at 2 a.m
Also the thing where they'll talk about how "diverse" the staff at Bodegas are and how that makes them special, as if every 7/11 outside the North East is exclusively staffed by white coal miners.
Brooklyn delenda est
All of those things have been true forever re: rats and trash. If anything these problems have gotten better not worse. The only thing that's changed in a negative way is the cost of living has gone up substantially so it's become impossible for people to move out of their parents houses and still stay nearby, also the subway tends to fluctuate in quality over the years and it currently is a lower point but far from as bad as it once was.