Rodent Control in Crown Heights

Rodent Pressure in Crown Heights

Crown Heights is situated between Eastern Parkway to the north and Clarkson Avenue to the south, from Flatbush Avenue on the west to Ralph Avenue on the east. The neighborhood's building stock is brownstones and pre-war walk-ups nearly identical in construction to Bed-Stuy and Park Slope — Victorian-era masonry from the 1880s through 1910s with the same foundation vulnerabilities.

Eastern Parkway, the broad boulevard that forms the northern boundary of the neighborhood, runs along the southern edge of Prospect Park from Grand Army Plaza east through Crown Heights. Buildings on the streets immediately south of Eastern Parkway — Lincoln Place, Sterling Place, St. Johns Place — are adjacent to the park margin and see elevated Norway rat pressure from the park population in spring and fall. The Botanic Garden at the park's southern edge creates additional planted area with harborage potential.

Nostrand Avenue running north-south through the neighborhood is the main commercial corridor, with a density of Caribbean and American food restaurants and markets that generates Norway rat pressure on the surrounding residential blocks. The streets between Nostrand Avenue and New York Avenue in the central part of the neighborhood see the most consistent pressure from the commercial strip. The 3 and 4 trains run under Eastern Parkway, creating underground connectivity throughout the neighborhood's northern edge.