Category: new york city
By nobugsonme on Apr 10, 2008 in Adriano Espaillat, Andrew Lanza, Ann Margaret Carrozza, Audrey I. Pheffer, Bob Reilly, Carl Marcellino, Catherine Nolan, Charles J. Fuschillo, D. Gordon, Darryl C. Towns, Elizabeth Little, Ellen Young, Eric T. Schneiderman, Harvey Weisenberg, James F. Brennan, James Seward, John Sabini, Joseph Robach, José Serrano, Jr., Kenneth P. LaValle, Luis M. Diaz, Margaret M. Markey, Martin Dilan, Martin Golden, Michael N. Gianaris, NY, Peter J. Abbate, Richard N. Gottfried, Rory I. Lancman, Ruben Diaz, Shirley L. Huntley, Stephen M. Saland, Suzi Oppenheimer, Thomas Morahan, Toby Ann Stavisky, Velmanette Montgomery, activism, bed bug legislation, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, new york, new york city, new york state, new york state assembly, new york state senate, politics, senate | 1 Comment
Remember the bill introduced by Michael Gianaris and passed in the NYS Assembly last May? We were happy the Assembly passed it.
But Bill A6667a later died in the NYS Senate in January of this year.
The good news is that the bill has now been amended and approved by the Assembly once again as A6667b. […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 27, 2008 in Book Forum, Edith Grossman, bed bugs, bedbugs, book sales, book vendors, new york city, nyc, shopping, street shopping, used books | 3 Comments
Check out the quotation from the last paragraph of this discussion with Edith Grossman, in Book Forum, which calls her “the foremost English translator of Spanish-language literature:”
Grossman is a reader’s reader, happy to have gotten cheap paperbacks from neighborhood stores like the old Shakespeare & Co., Labyrinth Books (now Bookculture), and Papyrus (now Morningside Bookshop). […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 20, 2008 in Bed Bug Dogs, bed bug inspection, bed bugs, bed bugs and real estate, bedbugs, brokers, buying a home, how to avoid bed bugs, how to detect bed bugs, lawyers, legal, legal issues, new york city, new york state, property condition disclosure act, real estate | 1 Comment
This Q&A in the New York Times Real Estate section brings up an interesting question.
A couple selling a New York City apartment had bed bugs six months ago. They have not noticed any problem since. So the question is, do they need to disclose that the property they’re selling had bed bugs recently?
Jay […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 19, 2008 in 311 and bed bugs, Lexington, Luiz Aragon, New York Press, New York bed bug seminars, New York's response to bed bugs, Robert Jackson, Times Ledger, bed bug violations, bed bugs, bed bugs in new york, british columbia, cinncinnati, how to detect bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, new york, new york city, new york city council, nyc, ohio, ontario, toronto, vancouver | 7 Comments
The press release for the New York HPD bed bug seminars is here. It includes dates and times, addresses, and a phone number for more information. Seminars will be in English and Spanish. Please do call the number listed below to reserve a spot.
The first seminar is scheduled to take place on […]
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 6, 2008 in 2010 Winter Olympics, Bloor Street, Paula Fletcher, The Star, Toronto City Council, bed bug dog, bed bug protocol, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bed bugs and public health, bedbugs, boston, canada, cincinnati, downtown eastside, get rid of bed bugs, getting rid of bed bugs, health, health department, laundry, london, new york city, notifying tenants, nyc, ontario, politicians, purity pest control, san francisco, south of bloor, toronto, vancouver | 0 Comments
Jennifer Brown of The Star reports that Toronto politician Paula Fletcher is agitated about bed bugs–and trying to do something about them.
She wants the health department to investigate whether they’re a health hazard:
Toronto Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) has received so many calls from constituents she’s asked the health department to declare them a […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 1, 2008 in Pearl Gluck, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbug, divan, films, hungary, new york, new york city, nyc, vantsn, yiddish | 2 Comments
I am always on the alert for bed bugs in the media: not just the news, but television shows (like The Simpsons), movies, etc.
Here’s an oldie that’s “new to me” and probably you too: New York filmmaker Pearl Gluck’s 2004 beautiful documentary Divan is about her exploration of her Hasssidic heritage, and centers around […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 30, 2007 in 311, Lexington, activism, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in colleges, bed bugs in schools, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, california, cincinnati, department of health, government response to bed bugs, how to eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, low-income housing, marymount manhattan college, mayor bloomberg, new york city, new york city department of education, new york daily news, nyc, nyc dohmh, nyc housing and preservation department, nycdoe, ohio, public housing, san francisco, tenants and landlords | 15 Comments
The lead story in the “News” section of today’s New York Daily News is on bed bugs. That’s good: it’s always good to see bed bugs in the news.
It’s not a particularly helpful story, however.
For starters, there are inaccuracies. Let’s start with this caption below a photo of an adult bed bug:
Unfed […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 15, 2007 in bed bug hotels, bed bugs, bedbugs, hotel, hotel pennsylvania, hotels, law, lawsuit, legal, new york, new york city, nyc, usa | 3 Comments
The New York Observer reports that the Hotel Pennsylvania has settled its bed bug lawsuit out of court.
Vornado-owned Hotel Pennsylvania has agreed to pay nearly $100,000, court records show, to a group of six tourists who claimed to have been bitten by bedbugs while staying at the old Seventh Avenue lodge.
You can read the rest […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 4, 2006 in bed bugs, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, hotels, new york, new york city, nyc, signs and symptoms, travel, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa | 0 Comments
An anonymous emailer (well, she used a pseudonym, but even those are safe with me) pointed me to a hotel review on Tripadvisor.com.
Most of you know that travelers write reviews of hotels on Tripadvisor and also hotelchattter.com. In cases where bedbugs are encountered, this is a good way to warn others about to pay […]
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