Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Ridgewood, Queens (ZIP 11385), for row houses, multifamily buildings, and businesses, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Ridgewood is about fifty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, in on the Long Island Expressway and down through Maspeth, and it's the southwestern end of our Queens route.
Ridgewood is one of the most uniform neighborhoods in the city, and that uniformity shapes the pest work. About 69,000 people live on 1,156 acres on the Brooklyn border, and most of the housing was built between 1905 and 1915, after a 1905 zoning ordinance required masonry instead of wood frame. Louis Berger and Company designed more than 5,000 of the buildings, most of them the yellow-brick row houses and two- and three-family flats the neighborhood is known for, and the result is ten National Register historic districts listed in 1983 plus four city landmark districts. The Germans who settled here after the 1880s worked the breweries, fourteen of them on Brewer's Row by 1890, and the Ridgewood Times printed in German and English from 1908.
A hundred-year-old attached row house is a shared building whether it looks like one or not. German cockroaches and mice move along the party walls, through the cellars and the pipe chases that run the length of a block, and a treated unit in a row with untreated neighbors gets reinfested. Norway rats work the cellars, the rear yards and the old sewer lines, and American cockroaches come up from the floor drains. The commercial streets, Myrtle Avenue, Forest Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue and Fresh Pond Road, are lined with restaurants, bakeries and delis with apartments above them, and those carry the heaviest roach and rat pressure. Because so many buildings are landmarked, we seal and treat without drilling through historic brick or altering facades.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Ridgewood and neighboring Glendale, Middle Village, Maspeth and, across the border, Bushwick.
Because a row of attached brick houses is one building as far as a German cockroach is concerned. They move along the party walls, through the cellars and up the pipe chases that connect every flat on the block, so one untreated unit reseeds the others. We treat your unit and the adjoining voids, and we tell you plainly when the row needs to be treated together. Roach work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Two- and three-family flats are most of our Ridgewood work, and we treat them whole-building 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. Treating a 1910 yellow-brick row house means finding the entry points at the cellar, the party walls and the utility lines rather than drilling the facade, and sealing with materials that don't show from the street. Most of Ridgewood sits in a historic district, so that's how we work here every day.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Ridgewood, Queens
Nearby areas we also serve: Forest Hills, Long Island City, Astoria, Jamaica · All of Queens