Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Riverdale, Bronx (ZIP 10463, 10471), for co-ops, apartments, and houses, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Riverdale is about an hour and five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, over the Throgs Neck Bridge and across the Cross Bronx and the Henry Hudson, and it's the western end of our Bronx route.
Riverdale is the hilly northwest corner of the Bronx, with the Hudson River on the west, Yonkers to the north and Van Cortlandt Park on the east, at one of the highest elevations in the city. It was an estate district in the 1800s until the railroad opened it up, and Fieldston, laid out from 1909 by Albert Wheeler to follow the contours of the land and keep as much of the woods as possible, is still private streets of Georgian and Tudor Revival houses under a full tree canopy. About 27,900 people live on the neighborhood's 1,140 acres, and the housing runs from those mansions to prewar apartment buildings, 1950s low-rise brick buildings and newer condominiums, most of the apartment buildings converted to co-ops by the 1980s. Wave Hill's 20-acre garden overlooks the river.
The two kinds of housing carry two kinds of pest work. The co-ops and apartment buildings along the Henry Hudson Parkway, Johnson Avenue and Riverdale Avenue have the same building-wide German cockroach and mouse patterns as the rest of the city, unit to unit through shared walls, pipe chases and compactor rooms, and we work with boards and managing agents to treat whole buildings. The houses in Fieldston and along the river sit on wooded, rocky, sloping lots with original wood sills, slate roofs and stone foundations, which is carpenter ant, termite and mouse territory, and Van Cortlandt Park and the Hudson shoreline push raccoons, squirrels, opossums and mosquitoes into every yard along them.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Riverdale, including Fieldston, Spuyten Duyvil and North Riverdale, plus neighboring Kingsbridge and Van Cortlandt Village.
Yes. Co-ops and apartment buildings along the Henry Hudson Parkway, Johnson Avenue and Riverdale Avenue are the biggest part of our Riverdale work, mostly for German cockroaches and mice. We treat individual units, and when the problem is building-wide we say so and work with the board or managing agent on a building treatment. Roach and mouse work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Because Fieldston was laid out to keep its woods, and a house under a full tree canopy on a damp, sloping lot with original wood sills and window frames is exactly where carpenter ants nest. Big black ants indoors in late winter or early spring mean a nest in the house. Carpenter ant treatment includes a free estimate and a 6-month written guarantee.
Usually squirrels by day and raccoons by night, with opossums under decks and porches. Van Cortlandt Park and the Hudson shoreline are a lot of habitat, and the homes along their edges are the first warm place the animals look in fall. Nesting removal includes sealing the entry with wire mesh and carries a 6-month written guarantee.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Riverdale, Bronx
Nearby areas we also serve: Pelham Bay, Throgs Neck, City Island, Astoria · All of The Bronx