Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in City Island, Bronx (ZIP 10464), for homes, restaurants, and marinas, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. City Island is about fifty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay over the Throgs Neck Bridge and through Pelham Bay Park, and we run it with Pelham Bay and Throgs Neck on the same route.
City Island is a mile and a half long and half a mile wide, sitting between Eastchester Bay and Long Island Sound at the end of a bridge from Pelham Bay Park, with 4,417 people at the 2020 census. Benjamin Palmer bought it in 1761 planning a seaport that never came, and what came instead was oystermen, Hell Gate pilots and shipbuilders; the Nevins Boat Yard here built many of the yachts that raced and won the America's Cup. The island is still a boat town, with marinas and yacht clubs along both shores, and City Island Avenue, the single spine down the middle, lined with seafood restaurants and antique shops. The housing is Victorian houses along the water, small cottages and modest homes on tight lots between, and it's old wood on salt water.
For pest work, that means rats and wood. The marinas, seawalls, docks, boat storage and restaurant dumpsters give Norway rats everything they need year round, and they move from the water side into every basement and crawlspace on the island. The Victorian and cottage housing, with original sills, porch posts near the soil and cedar shingle weathered by salt air, is carpenter ant, carpenter bee and termite territory, and the foundations leak mice every October. The seafood restaurants along City Island Avenue carry the German cockroach and rat pressure that every restaurant row does, and the apartments and homes behind them get it next.
Bobby Bugs serves all of City Island and neighboring Pelham Bay, Country Club and Throgs Neck.
Yes. Restaurants along City Island Avenue are a regular part of our City Island work, mostly for Norway rats, German cockroaches and mice around kitchens, dumpsters and the water side. We schedule around service hours, treat the kitchen and the shared walls, put every job in writing, and rat, roach and mouse work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Because the whole island is rat habitat: marinas, seawalls, docks, boat storage and a restaurant row, all within a few hundred feet of every house. Norway rats burrow along the water and follow food into basements and crawlspaces. Rat work here means interior trapping, sealing entry points along the foundation and seawall, and locked exterior bait stations that we service, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Original sills, porch posts near the soil and cedar shingle softened by salt air are exactly what carpenter ants and subterranean termites look for, and they've had a century to find it. Big black ants indoors in late winter point to carpenter ants; mud tubes and spring swarmers point to termites. Carpenter ant treatment carries a 6-month written guarantee and termite treatment carries a written guarantee of 1 to 2 years, both with a free estimate.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: City Island, Bronx
Nearby areas we also serve: Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck, Riverdale, Bayside · All of The Bronx