Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Long Island City, Queens (ZIP 11101, 11109), for apartments, high-rises, warehouses, and restaurants, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Long Island City is about fifty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, straight in on the Long Island Expressway, and it's the western end of our Queens route.
Long Island City was its own city from 1870 to 1898, and for most of the century after that it was factories and rail yards on the East River. Silvercup Studios was a bread bakery, the Pepsi-Cola sign still stands on the waterfront, and Queensbridge Houses, with more than 3,000 units, is the largest public housing complex in North America. Then the 2001 rezoning turned the waterfront residential, and between 2010 and 2017 alone 41 new apartment buildings went up, with towers now reaching 755 and 811 feet. About 63,000 people live here today, many of them in buildings that didn't exist twenty years ago.
For pest work, that mix is the story. New high-rises are not immune: German cockroaches and mice ride in with move-in boxes, deliveries and furniture, then spread through trash chutes, compactor rooms and the plumbing chases that connect every unit on a line, so a treated apartment in an untreated tower gets reinfested from above or below. The older walk-ups and row houses around Court Square and toward Astoria have the same shared-wall patterns as the rest of western Queens. And the industrial blocks along Newtown Creek and the rail yards keep Norway rats moving into everything nearby, including the restaurants along Vernon Boulevard and Jackson Avenue and the apartments above them. We treat units, work with property managers on building-wide treatment, and handle the warehouses and commercial kitchens in between.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Long Island City, including Hunters Point, Court Square and Queensbridge, plus neighboring Astoria and Sunnyside.
Because German cockroaches move in with people, not through the walls from outside. They arrive in cardboard, used furniture and grocery bags, then spread unit to unit through the trash chute, compactor room and plumbing chases that connect a whole line of apartments. A new building doesn't protect you. We treat the unit and the adjoining voids, and roach work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Multi-unit buildings are most of our Long Island City work, and we treat them building-wide when that's what it takes, coordinate with management on access and scheduling, and put every job in writing. Roach, mouse and rat treatments carry a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Warehouses, studios, commercial kitchens and restaurants along Vernon Boulevard, Jackson Avenue and the industrial blocks toward Newtown Creek are a regular part of our work, mostly for Norway rats, mice and German cockroaches around loading docks, dumpsters and kitchens. We schedule around business hours, and rat, mouse and roach work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Long Island City
Nearby areas we also serve: Astoria, Forest Hills, Flushing, The Bronx · All of Queens