Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com » miss heather http://bedbugger.com bed bug news, information, activism, and support Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Bed bugs in NYC: if we could just get Bill Murray on the case http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/30/bed-bugs-in-nyc-if-we-could-just-get-bill-murray-on-the-case/ http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/30/bed-bugs-in-nyc-if-we-could-just-get-bill-murray-on-the-case/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 00:19:13 +0000 nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/?p=980 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bed bugs in NYC: if we could just get Bill Murray on the case", url: "http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/30/bed-bugs-in-nyc-if-we-could-just-get-bill-murray-on-the-case/" });]]> Miss Heather of NewYorkShitty.com knows that the war on bed bugs needs a little Bill Murray, Caddyshack-style.

She also reminds us there’s a bed bug seminar coming up in Greenpoint next Tuesday.

Tuesday May 6, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

The Greenpoint Reformed Church
136 Milton Street
Broooklyn, NY 11222
RSVP (HPD): (212) 863-8830

To our knowledge, it’s the first HPD seminar that was specifically requested by residents of Greenpoint, namely rock stars Miss Heather and her friend, Pastor Ann Kansfield of the Greenpoint Reformed Church, the host of the event.

If you can help Miss Heather by posting flyers for Tuesday’s event in Greenpoint, Bushwick, Long Island City, or Williamsburg, please click the link above to volunteer.

Helpful Hopelessnomo reminds us in the forums about the Greenpoint event, and that

. . . there is another one in Williamsburg in June:

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Lindsay Park Building 4 Community Center
31 Leonard Street
Between Moore and Boerum Streets
RSVP (HPD): (212) 863-8830

Even if you’re already hooked up bedbug-information-wise, Hopelessnomo reminds us,

. . . you can encourage your friends and neighbors to attend these seminars so that they can get a quick overview. Plus I imagine that well-attended seminars also send a message and HPD scheduling these classes in more neighborhoods can only do good.

Yes indeed.

Wouldn’t it be great to show that HPD needs to do more bed bug seminars in more neighborhoods? What better way of showing this than packing the rafters of the first “by public demand” HPD bed bug seminar?

Finally, Crawledon rightly reminds Bedbuggers in the same thread that you can bring your questions about bed bugs to the event, and ask the speakers, and that New York vs. Bed Bugs will have a presence at the Greenpoint event.

New York vs. Bed Bugs is the first and only organization that we know of which is working to pressure NYC to do more to help stop the spread of bed bugs, and get help to those who need it.

Find out some simple ways you can help with that by going to the New York vs. Bed Bugs website, or talking to some of the founders at this event!

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]]> http://bedbugger.com/2008/04/30/bed-bugs-in-nyc-if-we-could-just-get-bill-murray-on-the-case/feed/ Winter scene in Williamsburg, with curbside mattresses http://bedbugger.com/2007/12/05/winter-scene-in-williamsburg-with-curbside-mattresses/ http://bedbugger.com/2007/12/05/winter-scene-in-williamsburg-with-curbside-mattresses/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:57:23 +0000 nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/12/05/winter-scene-in-williamsburg-with-curbside-mattresses/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Winter scene in Williamsburg, with curbside mattresses", url: "http://bedbugger.com/2007/12/05/winter-scene-in-williamsburg-with-curbside-mattresses/" });]]> 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 kinds of scenes just put me in a poetry kind of mood.)

Two Williamsburg mattress photos courtesy of Miss Heather, our Brooklyn native informant.

What’s the opposite of eye candy?

More Willyburg mattresses.jpg

Miss Heather directs our attention to the luxury condos in the background. For itchy young urban professionals.

Or there’s this one, on North 11th Street, Williamsburg:

N 11 bburg.jpg

Okay, the futon on the far right looks like something peed on it. But the mattress second from right, in the bag, looks new.

Bucolic with the snow, no?
I thought so.

Mattress photos above courtesy of Miss Heather of newyorkshitty.com, who does not run a bed bug blog, though, being in Greenpoint (also next door to Williamsburg), the topic does come up again and again.

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