Housing and Preservation Department Educator Edward Brownbear told those in attendance at the Greenpoint HPD Bed Bug Seminar on Tuesday night that bed bugs had been found on benches at a number of different subway stations.
Miss Heather and Renee of New York vs. Bed bugs both blogged about that terrifying (but as to be expected) […]

Playbill reports that a play entitled Bedbugs! has been selected for the Next Link Project:

The fifth-annual New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced the 12 musicals selected for its Next Link Project.
The three-week festival – running Sept. 15–Oct. 5 – features musicals from around the world, culled from invitations and an open-submission process.
The works accepted […]

David Segal’s article in the Washington Post was frustrating on many levels, but most of all because the actual data presented was erroneous and misleading.
Kudos are now due to Renee of NewYorkvsBedbugs.org, who was surely the party responsible for convincing the Washington Post via this campaign to correct the erroneous information used by David Segal […]

Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal reports that
In a ruling of first impression, a Manhattan judge has scratched a request for punitive damages in a bedbug case.
But the judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice Judith J. Gische, let go forward the negligence claims of two Maryland tourists for bites they sustained during a two-night […]

Remember when I said that a number of New York bedbuggers were organizing a plan to call for local officials to take action on the bed bug situation in NYC?
Well, it’s happening.
New York vs. Bed Bugs, (slogan: “NYC is the underdog!”) declares:
We believe that the city should lead the fight against bed bugs.
From Australia to […]

This time it’s Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, according to legal tabloid Above the Law. Apparently Cravath are trying to one-up Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, who Above the Law claimed had bed bugs in June, and again in October.
Above the Law claims,
1. An email was sent around Cravath last week about the presence of […]

Someone claimed there were bed bugs in the VIP couch at Fox News’s Manhattan studios in November of 2006. After we followed up, the source claimed she was told this by a Fox producer. That sounded plausible enough, but still, just a rumor.
Then, a year later, in November 2007, someone else claimed […]

This time Segal speaks with Bob Garfield on WNYC.com’s “On the Media.” You can listen to it, or read a translated-by-a-machine transcript with lots of goofy typos by clicking here. I made my own corrections to the faulty transcript in the excerpts quoted below.
In this discussion, David Segal continues the argument he made […]

A bit of background:
Toronto has had a serious bed bug problem for some time, just like New York, London, San Francisco, Vancouver–I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
The Toronto Star also has a journalist called Joe Fiorito who wrote extensively and repeatedly about how serious a problem bed bugs were, […]

I know the NYC Housing and Preservation Department’s bed bug seminars are not perfect.  But wouldn’t you rather your neighbors had access to one, rather than not?
I say yes, especially if you live in Greenpoint.  Greenpointers and their Williamsburg neighbors are seriously bedbugged.
So, Miss Heather of newyorkshitty.com and her friend Ann Kansfield (the Co-Pastor of […]

This Columbia Spectator article focuses on the personal plight of some folks with bed bugs living near Columbia University. It’s a nice article bound to raise some awareness of the problem. But what interests me is the section citing HPD statistics on bed bugs in NYC.
It cites the city’s HPD stats on bed […]

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 […]