Pest Control in Concourse, Bronx
The Concourse neighborhood follows the Grand Concourse from around East 149th Street north past East 167th Street, taking in Yankee Stadium, the Bronx County Courthouse and the borough's civic center. The boulevard is lined with one of the country's largest concentrations of Art Deco apartment buildings, many with curved corner windows, sunburst motifs and grand lobbies. The B, D and 4 trains converge at 161st Street–Yankee Stadium, and the B and D continue north under the Concourse. Joyce Kilmer Park, Heritage Field and Macombs Dam Park offer green space, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts sits on the boulevard. Residents include long-established Black and Latino families and a growing number of newcomers drawn by large prewar apartments.
Also known as: Grand Concourse, Concourse Village, Yankee Stadium area.
About Concourse
Engineer Louis Risse designed the Grand Concourse in the 1890s as a Parisian-style boulevard, and it opened in 1909. When the subway arrived in the 1910s and 1930s, developers built hundreds of elegant elevator buildings, making the Concourse a coveted address for upwardly mobile Jewish families. Yankee Stadium opened in 1923, and its replacement opened across 161st Street in 2009. Much of the boulevard is now protected as a historic district.
Common Pest Problems in Concourse
The Concourse's big prewar apartment houses are handsome but full of hidden pathways for pests. Radiator pipes, old dumbwaiters, incinerator shafts converted to trash chutes and plaster walls with gaps behind them allow German cockroaches and mice to move easily between dozens of units. Wool rugs, closets full of stored clothing and long-term tenancies make clothes moths a recurring complaint, and silverfish thrive in bathrooms with aging tile and in basement storage rooms.
Game days at Yankee Stadium and the food businesses along 161st Street and the Concourse generate plenty of garbage, and rats burrow in the landscaping of Joyce Kilmer Park, Macombs Dam Park and the planted medians of the boulevard. The elevated 4 line along River Avenue and the ornate cornices of Art Deco buildings draw pigeons, whose nesting on ledges and window air conditioners is a common complaint among residents facing the tracks.