Rodent Control in Jackson Heights

Rodent Pressure in Jackson Heights

Jackson Heights is a dense residential and commercial neighborhood in north-central Queens, located between Astoria to the north and Elmhurst to the south, along the 7 train on Roosevelt Avenue. The neighborhood is one of the most ethnically diverse in the world, and its food scene on 74th Street and Roosevelt Avenue reflects that: South Asian restaurants, grocery stores, and sweet shops on 74th Street between 37th and 40th Avenues, Latin American food markets and restaurants on Roosevelt Avenue, and the dense commercial activity of the Jackson Heights neighborhood create sustained Norway rat pressure on the surrounding residential blocks.

The residential core of Jackson Heights is the landmark historic district of attached two-story brick buildings and garden apartments from the early 1920s — a planned residential development that is architecturally distinct from most of Queens. The garden apartments have shared interior courtyards, and the buildings' original construction is relatively well-preserved. The attached row houses on the surrounding blocks — Northern Boulevard to the north, Junction Boulevard to the east — have the typical shared basement wall vulnerabilities of attached construction from that era.

The elevated 7 train on Roosevelt Avenue creates infrastructure pressure along the corridor, and the station complexes at 74th Street-Broadway and 82nd Street-Jackson Heights both have underground connectivity to the sewer network.