Cricket control in Downtown Brooklyn: what to know
Downtown Brooklyn is the borough's commercial and transit hub — Fulton Street Mall, Atlantic Terminal and the Barclays Center area concentrate food retail, transit infrastructure and large pedestrian volumes that produce significant food-waste pressure feeding some of Brooklyn's densest rat populations.
The mix of older commercial buildings converted to residential use and new high-rise towers around Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues means both legacy pest access routes through old building infrastructure and modern elevator-borne cockroach and bed bug spread in the taller residential towers.
High commuter foot traffic through Atlantic Terminal and the Fulton Street subway corridor sustains rodent pressure that migrates from transit infrastructure into adjacent building basements and ground-floor businesses.
Signs you need cricket control
- Chirping at night (house crickets) coming from basements or walls
- Humpbacked, long-legged crickets jumping in basements, cellars or bathrooms
- Holes or damage in stored fabric, cardboard or paper in basement storage
- Crickets concentrated in damp, dark ground-floor and below-grade areas
How we treat cricket control in Downtown Brooklyn
Crickets — especially the humpbacked camel cricket (often called a 'spider cricket' or 'cave cricket') — are a common but under-treated NYC pest. They thrive in the damp basements, cellars, crawl spaces and ground-floor units that older New York buildings have in abundance, and their chirping and jumping make them especially unwelcome indoors.
Camel crickets don't chirp but they jump erratically when disturbed and feed on fabric, cardboard and stored items in basements. House crickets are drawn to warmth and light. Both signal a moisture and entry-point problem, which is why treatment that ignores the underlying conditions never holds.
Local landmarks & coverage
We serve all of Downtown Brooklyn and the surrounding Brooklyn area — including Fulton Street Mall, MetroTech Center, Barclays Center, Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn Law School — across ZIP codes 11201, 11217.