# pestcite

> Every Monday: Chicago and NYC health inspection records near your shop (violation 38, codes 04K–04N, failed rat inspections, new licenses), with record links.

pestcite is a weekly list for commercial pest control companies in Chicago and New York City. Every Monday it sends the places near the firm's shop that city inspectors wrote up, each with a link to the government record:

- Chicago: food inspections that recorded violation 38 (insects, rodents and animals) at groceries, restaurants, daycares, schools, hospitals and other licensed places, plus newly issued food and child-care licenses.
- New York City: restaurants cited by NYC Health under codes 04K–04N (rats, mice, roaches, filth flies), and privately owned commercial or 4+-unit apartment buildings that failed a rat inspection for rat activity, with the owner of record when it is a company.

Counts come from a deterministic engine over public city datasets. No AI model produces numbers.

Price: $149/month per territory. Founding firms pay $79/month for 12 months. 14-day free trial, no card. Paid plans are not open yet: today you can start the free trial, and nothing is charged when it ends.

For scale: $149/month is the price of 2 to 3.7 commercial pest control leads from Google Local Services Ads, which cost $40–75 per lead (Blue Grid Media, Mar 21, 2026, <https://bluegridmedia.com/pest-control-lsa-roi-benchmarks>, fetched Nov 7, 2026). A record is not a lead: nobody on the list asked for service.

## What a record means

- A record is not a request for service. Nobody on the list asked for a quote.
- A violation 38 write-up does not by itself mean pests were present: door gaps, proofing and missing pest-control log books are recorded under it too. pestcite marks "pests noted" only when the inspector's comment names live or dead insects, rodents or droppings.
- NYC restaurant citations can be dismissed later, and restaurants that close drop out of the city's file. A failed rat inspection is about the lot on that date; a later inspection may pass.
- Records post late, so each Monday list covers the newest complete week that ended at least a week before.
- pestcite never prints a person's name or a homeowner, and contacts no one for its customers.
- Coverage: the City of Chicago and New York City's five boroughs. No suburbs yet.

## Facts (data as of Nov 8, 2026; source: pestcite engine via /api/facts)

The counts below are what pestcite's lists hold, counted by the engine's fixed rules from the city files named on each line; what the rules leave out is listed with its count. The city files change every day, so a raw query of a dataset on a later day gives a somewhat different total. How we count: https://pestcite.com/data#checks

- Chicago, Oct 5 – Nov 1, 2026: in pestcite's list, violation 38 (insects, rodents and animals) was recorded at 148 places; the inspector noted pests at 67 (the rest: door gaps, proofing, missing log books and other notes); 92 had a Fail result; 44 were not restaurants; 104 new food or child-care licenses were issued. Left out of these counts: 2 mobile food vendors (the record gives a commissary or licensing address, not where they operate), 1 places the city recorded as out of business, 2 duplicate rows of an inspection posted twice and 1 rows with no inspection result (such as no entry). Records: Food Inspections <https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/4ijn-s7e5>; Business Licenses <https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/r5kz-chrr>.
- New York City, Oct 5 – Nov 1, 2026: in pestcite's list, NYC Health cited 751 restaurants under codes 04K–04N (rats, mice, roaches, flies); 2,077 privately owned commercial or 4+-unit apartment buildings failed a rat inspection for rat activity, and so did 93 institutional buildings (churches, schools, hospitals or similar), out of 3,273 lots that failed in all (the list leaves out homes, public and vacant land, parking lots, lots without a reliable building id, and fails followed by a passed inspection in the same job). Left out of these counts: 12 cited restaurants with no usable address or ZIP in the record and 35 rat-inspection lots with no usable address or ZIP. Records: DOHMH New York City Restaurant Inspection Results <https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/43nn-pn8j>; Rodent Inspection <https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/p937-wjvj>; Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) <https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/64uk-42ks>.
- Chicago sample territory 3 mi around ZIP 60622 (Wicker Park), Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026: From Oct 26, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026, the Chicago Department of Public Health recorded violation 38 (insects, rodents and animals) at 3 businesses within 3 miles of ZIP 60622. 1 is not a restaurant: 1 other. At 2 of them the inspector recorded pests (live or dead insects or rodents, or droppings). 18 new food or child-care licenses were issued in the same area.
- New York City sample territory 2 mi around ZIP 10027 (Harlem, Manhattan), Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, data as of Nov 8, 2026: From Oct 26, 2026 to Nov 1, 2026, NYC Health cited 9 restaurants within 2 miles of ZIP 10027 (New York City part only) for rats, mice, roaches, flies or other nuisance pests (codes 04K-04N). 115 privately owned commercial or 4+-unit apartment buildings failed a NYC Health rat inspection for rat activity, and so did 8 institutional buildings (churches, schools, hospitals or similar). The list: https://app.pestcite.com/t/10027-2
- Test territories (engine lists, data as of Nov 8, 2026), Sep 28 – Nov 1, 2026: in 4 Chicago areas the median complete week had 7.5 records (fewest 1, most 22); in 6 New York City areas the median week had 90.5 records.
- Every number above as JSON: https://pestcite.com/facts.json

## Product

- [Chicago & NYC inspection records for pest control](https://pestcite.com/): Every Monday: Chicago and NYC health inspection records near your shop (violation 38, codes 04K–04N, failed rat inspections, new licenses), with record links.
- [Pricing: one price per territory, free trial](https://pestcite.com/pricing): $149/month per territory in Chicago or New York City. 14-day free trial, no card. Founding firms pay $79/month for 12 months. Google LSA leads: $40–75 per lead.
- [Book a call](https://pestcite.com/book): Half an hour with pestcite's co-founder about the records near your shop. Pick a weekday time in your own time zone, by video or phone.

## Trust and data

- [Where the data comes from](https://pestcite.com/data): Each public dataset behind pestcite, how often it updates, what a record shows and does not show, how every line is checked, and what happens to a wrong record.
- [Questions and answers](https://pestcite.com/faq): Where the records come from, how accurate and fresh they are, what violation 38 means, legality, coverage, contacts, chains and price.
- [About pestcite](https://pestcite.com/about): Who builds pestcite, why we built it, how the records are checked, and how to reach a person.
- [Is it legal to use health inspection records?](https://pestcite.com/is-it-legal): Chicago and NYC publish inspection records as public data with no ban on commercial use. The rules for emails, calls and texts, and what to say.
- [Security](https://pestcite.com/security): Where pestcite runs, how your data is encrypted, who can see it, what we record (including session recordings) and which services process it.
- [Privacy policy](https://pestcite.com/privacy): What pestcite records on the site, in the app and in emails, including session recordings and cookies: why, who processes it, and how long we keep it.
- [Terms of service](https://pestcite.com/terms): The terms for using pestcite: what the lists are and are not, the free trial, price and canceling, how you may use the records, and our limits.

## Guides

- [Commercial pest control leads: health inspections](https://pestcite.com/commercial-pest-control-leads): Chicago violation 38 write-ups (pests noted, door gaps, log books), NYC restaurant pest citations and failed rat inspections, and new food licenses near you.
- [What pest control leads cost in 2026](https://pestcite.com/pest-control-lead-cost): Shared, exclusive and Local Services Ads lead prices for pest control, each with its source, and how a weekly list of health-inspection records compares.
- [Angi Leads alternative for commercial pest work](https://pestcite.com/angi-leads-alternative): What Angi sells pest control firms and what it costs, with sources. What it can't do, a side-by-side table, and when Angi is the better buy.
- [Chicago food inspections: violation 38 near you](https://pestcite.com/chicago-food-inspections-violation-38): What Chicago's violation 38 (insects, rodents and animals) covers, how pests differ from door gaps and log books, and the write-ups near your ZIP.
- [NYC restaurant codes 04K–04N and rat inspections](https://pestcite.com/nyc-restaurant-inspection-pest-codes): What NYC Health restaurant pest codes 04K, 04L, 04M and 04N mean, which buildings failed a rat inspection and who owns them, and what the records do not prove.

## FAQ

- Where does the data come from? City health departments and license offices: Chicago CDPH food inspections, Chicago BACP business licenses, and NYC Health restaurant and rodent inspections. Owner names in New York City come from NYC PLUTO. Each line links to the government record.
- Does violation 38 mean the place has pests? No. In the Chicago records we counted, pests were noted at 67 of the 148 places with a violation 38 write-up. Most of the rest were door gaps, proofing or a missing pest-control log book, and some were other things, such as a fly trap hung over a prep table. We label each one.
- How accurate is it? We print what the record says, with the inspector's words, and link the record. Before a list is published, every finding is compared with the saved government record, and a run with any mismatch is not published. City records do contain typos, and we show them as the city wrote them.
- Is it legal to use these records for sales? They are public records. Chicago and New York City publish them as is, with no ban on commercial use, and Chicago requires the disclaimer that is in our footer. We contact no one for you. If you email prospects, CAN-SPAM applies to business email too. Not legal advice.
- How fresh is it? Records post late: a Chicago violation 38 write-up can appear days or weeks after the inspection, and NYC rat inspections arrive in batches. So each Monday list covers the newest complete week that ended at least a week before.
- Which areas do you cover? The City of Chicago and New York City's five boroughs. No suburbs, New Jersey or Long Island yet. If your shop sits just outside the city, look up the city ZIP codes you service. Elsewhere, leave your email and we'll tell you when your area is in.
- Do you give contacts? NYC restaurant records include the business phone, and we show it. Chicago records have no phone; we show the license holder's company name when a second field in the record agrees. We never print a person's name or a homeowner.
- Will chains show up? Yes. Chain locations are marked "national account" and ranked lower, so independent businesses tend to come first. A chain with pests noted can still rank above a quieter record.
- Will my own customers show up? If the city writes one up, yes. You hear about it from the record, not from the customer.
- What does it cost? $149/month per territory. Founding firms pay $79/month for 12 months. The trial is 14 days free with no card.
- Can I cancel? Yes, any time. The trial takes no card, so nothing is charged when it ends. A paid plan runs month to month, with no contract.
- What happens when the trial ends? Nothing is charged, because we never took a card. Your feed on the web, with past weeks, stays readable. Paid plans aren't open yet, so for now your Monday email and CSV export keep working after the trial; once they open, an unpaid trial's Monday email stops and export locks.
- How big is a territory? A circle around your shop (1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 miles) or a set of ZIP codes, inside Chicago or New York City. The Monday email shows the top records, ranked; the web list and the CSV have every record in the area.
- Will I look like I'm chasing a citation? You choose who to call. Chicago lines show whether the inspection was a Pass or a Fail, and a line shows a later inspection that didn't repeat the citation when one has posted, so you can skip places that already fixed it. Chain locations are marked national account. A new license is a business just starting out, so the talk is about prevention. You never have to mention the record: you can simply offer an inspection. In an independent re-check, 37 of 37 sampled findings matched the live city records.
- Is my territory exclusive? No. Another firm can watch the same ZIP codes. The records are public, so anyone can look them up.

## Optional

- [Full text of every page](https://pestcite.com/llms-full.txt): the same pages as plain text, without forms and buttons.
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