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Greenpoint HPD Bed Bug Seminar »

By nobugsonme on May 7, 2008 in Brooklyn, HPD bed bug seminar, NYCHPD, bed bug seminar, bed bugs, bedbugs, greenpoint, hpd, public education | 0 Comments

The Greenpoint HPD Bed Bug Seminar was last night.
I was not able to be there, but Miss Heather has an excellent recap on the evening.
New York vs Bed Bugs members were there spreading word on how to get some change on the bed bug issue in NYC.
The presenter was Ed Brownbear, the only […]

NYC Bed Bug Seminar: did anyone get a letter inviting them? »

By nobugsonme on Feb 22, 2008 in Brooklyn, bed bugs, bedbugs, bushwick, how to avoid bed bugs, nyc bed bug seminars, public education | 0 Comments

Jeremy, the BushwickBK.com blogger, got a letter inviting him to the March 12 bed bug seminar in Bushwick.
Anyone else get a direct invite to a NYC bed bug seminar in their neighborhood?

New York City to get bed bug awareness campaign »

By nobugsonme on Jan 15, 2008 in 311, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, astoria, bed bug awareness, bed bug inspections, bed bug statistics, bed bug task force, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, bushwick, gale brewer, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, manhattan, new york, new york city, nyc, public education, washington heights | 3 Comments

Finally.
The Daily News reports that New York City is going to get a bed bug education campaign.
The article reports that there will be town hall meetings about bed bugs in Washington Heights (1/28), Astoria (2/5) and Bushwick (3/12).
Housing officials will roll out the campaign with a town hall meeting Jan. 28 in Washington Heights, where […]

So the Craigslist guy is escaping his bed bug-infested dorm for… Greenpoint?!? »

By nobugsonme on Dec 15, 2007 in Brooklyn, apartments, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, craigslist, dorms, get rid of bed bugs, greenpoint, herpes, m4w, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc | 2 Comments

Remember this guy?
Well, he’s back. And it’s hard to believe, but he sounds even less charming than last time. He updates the world that his dorm bed bugs have come back, and he is now moving to a non-bed bug-infested apartment in Greenpoint.
(Dude, no bed bugs in Greenpoint?!? Maybe that old landlord […]

Winter scene in Williamsburg, with curbside mattresses »

By nobugsonme on Dec 5, 2007 in Brooklyn, bed bugs, bedbugs, curbside, greenpoint, mattresses, miss heather, new york, nyc, street mattresses, williamsburg | 4 Comments

Bed bugs in Brooklyn. Well, I’d guess they were. You can never be sure. But I have lived in New York for many a year, and one did not used to find the sheer volume of mattresses one does today.

Many of them look shiny and new,
Others are streaked with bed bug pooh!
(These […]

Bed bugs in homeless shelters, casinos, hotels, apartments: Waynesboro, Atlantic City, Greenpoint, Toronto »

By Nobugsonme on Nov 23, 2007 in Brooklyn, Joe Fiorito, NJ, Toronto Community Housing, astral, atlantic city, bed bug news, bed bugs, bed bugs in casinos, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, canada, casino, greenpoint, homeless shelter, hotels, landlords, new hope shelter, new jersey, new york, nyc, ontario, pennsylvania, pistilli, public health, spread, spread of bed bugs, tenants, toronto, tropicana, usa, waynesboro | 0 Comments

Clip of the Day:
TheStar.com | Public Health must declare bedbug war
“The problem is spreading like flames all over town. Where are the people who will deal with this problem as if they were firefighters in front of a burning building?”

Bedbuggers, Are you all reading Joe Fiorito’s articles in the Star? You really […]

The strange case of bed bugs in Bushwick »

By nobugsonme on Sep 14, 2007 in 311, Brooklyn, apartments, bed bug registries, bed bugs, bedbugs, bushwick, forums, government, housing laws, itchy hipsters, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, paralysis, slumlords, spread, stories, tales of bed bug woe, tenants, treatment, usa | 15 Comments

Welcome to Brooklyn

Originally uploaded by TheGirlsNY

Bushwick, Brooklyn is home to two large dueling loft buildings: 248 and 255 McKibben Street. Yes, that’s right: they’re buildings so hip, fun, and now, they have their own myspace pages. (Don’t laugh, but we have one too.)
Gawker […]

And so, it gets worse: bed bugs on the move »

By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments

A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]

Marty Markowitz’s building has bed bugs »

By nobugsonme on Jun 5, 2007 in Brooklyn, bed bugs, bedbugs, celebrities, new york, usa | 2 Comments

Well, this is not what I was expecting, and it’s not controversial, but I knew there would be a third big story down the bed bug pipeline today: New York Magazine reports that Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz’s building has bed bugs.

Markowitz’s apartment is not currently infested (well, at least they don’t know it […]