Fly control in Boerum Hill: what to know
Boerum Hill is a landmarked historic district of exceptionally well-preserved 19th-century Greek Revival and Italianate brownstone and brick row houses, sitting between Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill and Gowanus. Like Park Slope, its housing stock is attached — shared party walls, original timber floor joists and basement garden apartments — so rodents, cockroaches and ants travel between adjoining homes through the building fabric itself, not just a single unit's own foundation.
The Smith Street and Atlantic Avenue restaurant and retail corridors keep food-source pressure high on the surrounding residential blocks year-round, sustaining cockroach and rodent activity through the colder months. Basement and garden-level units in these century-old row houses are prone to large 'water bugs' rising from old drains and to mice moving in from the commercial strips.
Much of the original or partially renovated masonry on Boerum Hill's protected blocks carries mortar gaps, deteriorated sill plates and unsealed utility penetrations — the entry conditions a fully modern building doesn't have, and the reason single-unit treatments here often need to account for the shared structure next door.
Signs you need fly control
- Small flies hovering around drains, sinks, or fruit
- Flies concentrated near a specific drain or piece of equipment
- A recurring fly problem in a kitchen or food-prep area
How we treat fly control in Boerum Hill
Flies are a sanitation and reputation problem, especially for restaurants and food service. Fruit flies and drain flies breed in the organic film inside drains, under equipment and in damp build-up — so killing the adults does nothing if the breeding source remains.
We identify the species and trace the breeding source, eliminate it, and treat to knock down the adult population, with ongoing options for food-service clients where fly pressure is constant.
Local landmarks & coverage
We serve all of Boerum Hill and the surrounding Brooklyn area — including Smith Street, Atlantic Avenue, State Street, Dean Street, Hoyt Street — across ZIP codes 11217, 11201.