Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Jamaica, Queens (ZIP 11432, 11433, 11434, 11435, 11436), for apartments, houses, and businesses, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Jamaica is about forty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, down the Cross Island and the Grand Central, and we run it with Valley Stream on the same route.
Jamaica is one of the oldest and busiest places in Queens. Dutch settlers established it as Rustdorp in 1656, it was the first county seat of Queens from 1683 to 1788 and again after the borough joined New York City in 1898, and King Manor, the home of Constitution signer Rufus King, still stands in its park. Today about 61,000 people live in the 2.67 square miles of the core neighborhood, and downtown Jamaica is a transit hub: Jamaica Station carries the LIRR, the subway and the AirTrain to JFK, and nearly every bus line in the area ends near the 165th Street terminal or Jamaica Center. Jamaica Avenue, Hillside Avenue, Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue are the commercial spines, dense with restaurants, delis, storefronts and the offices around the courts and York College, with apartment buildings above and around them. That density is where the German cockroach, mouse and rat pressure sits: shared walls, pipe chases, basements and dumpsters, unit to unit and building to building.
The residential streets are a mix. Attached and detached prewar and postwar houses run out toward Hollis, St. Albans and South Jamaica, with original sills, slab additions and small yards that termites, carpenter ants and pavement ants find the same way they find them in Nassau, and the older apartment buildings toward Jamaica Hills and Briarwood have the same building-wide roach and mouse patterns as downtown. Baisley Pond Park, more than 100 acres around a 30-acre pond, and the park at King Manor bring raccoons, squirrels and mosquitoes to the homes around them, and the JFK edge on the south side keeps rats moving along the cargo and industrial blocks.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Jamaica, including Jamaica Hills, Jamaica Estates and South Jamaica, plus neighboring Hollis, St. Albans, Briarwood, Richmond Hill and Queens Village.