City’s mosquito-spraying campaign comes to Southwest Brooklyn
To reduce the risk of West Nile virus and mosquito activity in general, the Health Department plans to conduct an adulticide treatment in the southwest area of Brooklyn on Sept. 2.
Mosquitoes usually breed and thrive near the water’s edge, and thus, the area to be sprayed stretches from Bay Ridge to Coney Island, also including parts of Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Gravesend, Homecrest, New Utrecht and Sea Gate.
This past Thursday, the mosquito-spraying campaign came to