Rodent Control in Sunnyside

Rodent Pressure in Sunnyside

Sunnyside is at the western edge of Queens, bordering Long Island City to the west and Woodside to the east, with the 7 train running along Queens Boulevard as the neighborhood's backbone. The neighborhood is home to Sunnyside Gardens, a planned garden community from the 1920s with attached houses and communal interior gardens — a National Historic Landmark District with distinct architectural character.

Queens Boulevard from the Long Island City border east through Sunnyside has a consistent commercial strip including restaurants, diners, and food markets that generates Norway rat pressure on the surrounding residential blocks. The 7 train infrastructure along Queens Boulevard creates underground connectivity in the neighborhood corridor. The LIRR embankment along the northern edge of the neighborhood provides harborage and creates a linear pressure zone.

Sunnyside Gardens' attached houses have the typical shared basement wall vulnerabilities of attached construction, with the added factor that the shared communal gardens in the interior of some blocks create green space harborage in the middle of the residential block — closer to the buildings than a distant park would be. Buildings on the streets with interior garden courts see this additional pressure.