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Gale Brewer invites bedbuggers to her annual open house »

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 […]

Gale Brewer’s Bed Bug Update »

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 […]

Brooklyn journalist muses on value of NYC spending money to fight bed bugs »

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 […]

More on New York’s response to bed bugs »

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 […]

New York City to get bed bug awareness campaign »

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 […]