Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Astoria, Queens (ZIP 11102, 11103, 11105, 11106), for apartments, row houses, and restaurants, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Astoria is about fifty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, straight in on the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central, and it's the western end of our Queens route.
Astoria is the biggest neighborhood we serve, close to 200,000 people in western Queens between the East River and Long Island City, and nearly all of it is attached housing: prewar walk-ups, brick row houses, six-story apartment buildings and the newer high-rises along the river. The village was settled as Hallett's Cove in 1652, incorporated in 1839 and renamed for John Jacob Astor, and it's been a working neighborhood ever since, with the Steinway piano factory here since 1870, Kaufman Astoria Studios, and the Con Edison plant at Ravenswood that generates about a fifth of the city's electricity. For pest work, attached housing is the whole story. German cockroaches and mice don't stay in one apartment; they move through shared walls, pipe chases, basements and trash rooms, and a treated unit in an untreated building gets reinfested from next door. We treat the unit and the adjoining voids, and we work with landlords and property managers to treat whole buildings.
The food is the other half. Steinway Street, 30th Avenue, Broadway and Ditmars Boulevard are lined with restaurants, cafes and bars, and the apartments above and behind them carry the heaviest roach and rat pressure in the neighborhood. Rats work the dumpsters, basements and the older sewer lines, and American cockroaches come up from drains in the prewar buildings. Astoria Park along the East River, with the city's largest public pool at 330 feet long, and the older tree-lined blocks toward Ditmars bring mosquitoes off the river and hornet nests in the trees.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Astoria, including Ditmars-Steinway, plus neighboring Long Island City, Sunnyside, Woodside and East Elmhurst.
Because they live in the building, not just your unit. German cockroaches travel through shared walls, pipe chases and trash rooms in a walk-up or row house, so a single sprayed apartment gets reinfested from the neighbors. We treat your unit and the adjoining voids, and we tell you plainly if the building needs to be treated as a whole. Roach work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Multi-unit buildings are most of our Astoria work, and we treat them building-wide when that's what it takes, schedule around tenants, and put every job in writing. Roach, mouse and rat treatments carry a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Restaurants, cafes and bars along Steinway, 30th Avenue, Broadway and Ditmars are a regular part of our Astoria work, mostly for German cockroaches, rats and mice around kitchens, basements and dumpsters. We schedule around service hours, treat the kitchen and the shared walls, and roach, rat and mouse work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Astoria, Queens
Nearby areas we also serve: Flushing, Jamaica, Bayside, The Bronx · All of Queens