By hopelessnomo on May 18, 2008 in bed bugs, bedbugs, gale brewer, new york city, new york city council | 3 Comments
The annual open house at Council Member Gale Brewer’s district office will be held tonight and tomorrow night.
Gale Brewer (Manhattan 6th District) has been at the forefront of the efforts to introduce meaningful bed bug legislation in the New York City Council for the past three years. We recently had an update on those […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 4, 2008 in bed bug seminars, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bedbugs, gale brewer, mattresses, new york, new york city council, nyc | 4 Comments
I found this press release on Room 8, a NYC politics blog.
Oddly enough, I could not find it on the NY City Council website or on Brewer’s defunct blog.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
COUNCIL MEMBER GALE A. BREWER
CITY HALL
NEW YORK, NY 10007
TEL: 212-788-6975
FAX: 212-513-7717
www.nyccouncil.info
Brewer Bedbug Battle Continues!
February 28, 2008 - For […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 24, 2008 in bed bugs, bedbugs, dennis holt, gale brewer, nyc, nyc bed bug seminars | 7 Comments
Dennis Holt of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote in an editorial Friday that he and his wife got a mailing from HPD, Diana Reyna and Gale Brewer, inviting him to one of the city’s bed bug seminars. And, since he has never seen a bed bug, though he has heard talk of them since […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 17, 2008 in Luiz Aragon, Miguel Martinez, bed bug education, bed bugs in the news, gale brewer, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, media, new york bed bugs, nyc | 3 Comments
Lots of news items are appearing, as the plan we heard of on Tuesday was officially announced yesterday.
NY1’s Cindi Avila quoted Gale Brewer as to the reason New York is taking action:
Last year, the city’s 311 hotline got 7,000 bedbug related calls, almost four times more than just three years earlier. Now the city is […]
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 […]
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