Rodent Control in Flatbush

Rodent Pressure in Flatbush

Flatbush spans a large area of central Brooklyn, roughly from Empire Boulevard to the north (at the Prospect Park border) south to Kings Highway, between Coney Island Avenue and East Flatbush. The neighborhood encompasses distinct sub-areas: the Victorian row houses of Ditmas Park on the tree-lined streets between Cortelyou Road and Dorchester Road, the denser pre-war and postwar apartment buildings along Flatbush Avenue and Church Avenue, and the lower-density two and three-family homes further south toward Kings Highway.

Church Avenue from Coney Island Avenue to Ralph Avenue is one of the most commercially active streets in Brooklyn — a continuous stretch of West Indian and Caribbean food markets, restaurants, bakeries, and specialty food stores. The street's food density generates significant Norway rat pressure on the surrounding residential blocks, particularly the streets between Coney Island Avenue and East 16th Street on either side of Church Avenue.

Flatbush Avenue is the main north-south corridor, running through the middle of the neighborhood past Brooklyn College in the south. The avenue's commercial activity and the underground infrastructure of the B and Q subway lines create a sustained pressure zone along its length. Prospect Park's southern edge at Parkside Avenue is the northern boundary of the neighborhood, and the park margin creates elevated pressure on the blocks immediately adjacent to Parkside Avenue.