the tenant of a manhattan apartment complex have many thing to worry about . their apartment be old and fall apart and and now the city have allow a developer to evict them in order to build a new skyscraper . these be hard work people who have little go for them except for the fact that they have some honor in who they be and how they try to live their life . clutch ( nick damaci ) be a former boxer who be the big brother of the building in that he try to look after everyone need . tenant such a kay ( bo corre ) and her son otto ( javier picayo ) and peter ( antone pagan ) and charlie ( larry fleishchman ) and in one way or another benefit from have clutch around . when clutch learn that his daughter casey ( kim blair ) be return home after a tour of duty where she be wound and there be another dimension add to clutch responsibility . though we never learn exactly what happen to casey and how that affect her relationship with her father and it be apparent that the relationship be strain even though there be still love between the two . on the day that casey return home a series of news report be broadcast around the city . report of rat attack where people who be bit develop a strange sickness soon begin to spread along with rumor that the city be find itself unable to deal with the threat . clutch and however and be more concerned about try to create a welcome home party for his daughter while kay in particular seem more concerned about try to capture the attention of clutch himself . other tenant and those not affect by such report pay little attention to the grow crisis . when night fall the terror begin . for reason unknown ( and mulberry st. never attempt to explain ) and those who be bit begin to turn into carnivorous beast themselves who resemble rat . the whole city be soon under siege a the infected spread the disease or destroy those who fall into their grasp . clutch and kay and and casey witness the horror that ensue when body be rip apart and feed upon a once normal human turn into vermin themselves scavenge for scrap of meat . others such a charlie experience the nightmare of be trap in their own home with nowhere to escape . mulberry st. isn not really a zombie movie so compare it to dawn of the dead or another movie of the same theme wouldn not be fair . however and it do hold it own even if there be some gap in the plot that could have be fill in . for example and what happen between clutch and casey . what happen to otto once he be capture by soldier send to clear the building out . the question be never answer but in the end they do not affect the outcome of the movie . one of the good 8 film to die for and mulberry st. be an example that low budget horror and suspense can work .