Pest Control in Lincoln Square, Manhattan
Lincoln Square is centered on Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, roughly spanning 59th to 72nd Streets from Central Park West to the Hudson River. The neighborhood is home to the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet and the Juilliard School, making it the city's performing arts hub. Columbus Circle and its shopping center anchor the southern end. Housing is dominated by high-rise towers built from the 1960s onward, including the Riverside South complex along the Hudson with its terraced waterfront park. Residents include performers, students and professionals. The 1 at 66th Street-Lincoln Center and the A, B, C, D and 1 at 59th Street-Columbus Circle serve the area.
Also known as: Lincoln Center, Riverside South.
About Lincoln Square
Lincoln Square was once a working-class neighborhood of tenements known as San Juan Hill, home to Black and Puerto Rican families. Urban renewal in the late 1950s cleared many blocks for Lincoln Center, which opened in stages during the 1960s. Later, former Penn Central rail yards along the Hudson were redeveloped as Riverside South, a complex of towers built from the 1990s through the 2010s.
Common Pest Problems in Lincoln Square
Modern high-rises dominate Lincoln Square, and while newer buildings are easier to seal, trash chutes, compactor rooms and service areas still allow mice and German cockroaches to spread between floors. Restaurants serving pre-performance crowds on Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues add waste that attracts rats. Riverside Park South's lawns and plantings near the Hudson offer burrowing spots for rats close to large residential buildings. Construction of new towers nearby displaced rats as well.
Pigeons flock to plazas around Lincoln Center and Columbus Circle, roosting on building ledges and terraces, which calls for bird-control measures on balconies. Pavement ants nest under plaza stones and sidewalks and can trail into ground-floor apartments and lobbies in warm weather. Older prewar walk-ups west of Amsterdam Avenue, though few, share walls and plumbing that let cockroaches and mice move between units, and parking garages beneath modern towers can shelter rodents near trash storage areas.