Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Valley Stream, NY (ZIP 11580, 11581, 11582, 11583), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Valley Stream is about forty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, straight down the Meadowbrook and Southern State, and we run it as a regular route because the pest volume on the Queens line is steady year round.
Valley Stream is one of the biggest villages in Nassau County, with 40,634 residents at the 2020 census packed into about 3.5 square miles and just under 13,000 housing units. Most of that housing is old by Long Island standards. Developer William R. Gibson put up roughly 2,500 homes here starting in 1922, and the village incorporated in 1925, so a large share of the Cape Cods, Tudors and colonials around the Gibson, Westwood and Valley Stream LIRR stations are pushing 100 years old. That age matters: original clay sewer laterals, brick foundations with settled mortar joints, and additions stacked on top of 1920s framing give mice and Norway rats more ways in than a 1970s slab house ever will. Sealing those gaps is how we make a 60-day mouse or rat guarantee hold in a house built before the Depression.
The village is named for the brook that runs through it, and water is the other half of the story. Valley Stream State Park opened in 1928 alongside the Southern State Parkway and covers 97 wooded acres around the old Cornell's Pond, with nature trails and a bird checklist that tells you exactly how much wildlife lives there. Homes on the streets backing the park, and along the brook corridor toward Hendrickson Park, see the raccoons, squirrels, carpenter ants and mosquitoes that come with mature trees and standing water. On the retail side, Green Acres Mall on Sunrise Highway and the restaurant rows on Rockaway Avenue and Merrick Road keep dumpsters and grease traps busy, which keeps German cockroaches and rats moving into nearby apartments and two-family homes.
Valley Stream borders Rosedale in Queens on its west side, and shares lines with Elmont, Franklin Square, Malverne, Lynbrook, Hewlett and Woodmere. Bobby Bugs serves all of them.