Category: Queens
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 Oct 27, 2007 in Gil Bloom, Queens, bed bugs, bedbugs, education, new york, nyc, training, usa | 5 Comments
Information on an upcoming event that should be of interest to landlords, apartment managers, social workers, and PCOs:
This course is ideal for pest control personnel, facility managers, building managers, tenant associations, social workers, or anyone concerned about bed bugs. Taught by industry professional and consultant Gil Bloom.
Bloom is well-known in bed bug circles, and […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments
A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]
By nobugsonme on May 18, 2007 in Queens, bed bugs, bedbugs, new york, news, nyc, schools, usa | 7 Comments
Small, local newspapers sometimes know their stuff better than some of the larger papers. The Forest Hills Times-Ledger (in Forest Hills, which is a neighborhood in Queens, NYC) just covered the Gianaris bill, successful in the NYS legislature and headed for the NYS senate.
But what caught my eye was this:
The insect, which dwells […]
By jessinchicago on May 9, 2007 in Queens, Tipping Point, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, chinches de cama, government, new york, new york state assembly, new york state senate, news, nyc, schools | 18 Comments
Great news, folks. I just received a press release from Assemblyman Gianaris’ office- thanks Maggie!- announcing the passage in the Assembly of the crucial and groundbreaking legislation that will require NYC schools to notify parents of bedbug infestations. The bill was introduced by Gianaris after the Department of Education’s Office of School Health […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 16, 2007 in Queens, alberta, bed bug bites, bed bugs, bedbugs, blackpool, brazil, british columbia, california, canada, colorado, denmark, england, florida, gibraltar, harrow, hungary, iceland, illinois, iowa, ireland, kentucky, manitoba, maryland, massachusetts, meta, michigan, mississippi, nevada, new jersey, new york, north dakota, nottingham, ohio, oklahoma, ontario, oregon, pennsylvania, quebec, san francisco, sheffield, spread, texas, uk, usa, utah, virginia, washington | 7 Comments
You can click here to see a map of the last 90 or so visitors to the site. It will look different from what I describe below, because I am writing about what I saw there about 4-5 hours ago. Now it’s almost midnight in New York, and the Aussies are starting to […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 15, 2007 in Queens, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, government, new york, news, schools, treatment in institutions, usa | 9 Comments
The New York Daily News had an update today on Bedbugs in Astoria, NYC schools and NYC schools in general.
I guess the NYCDoE doesn’t read Bedbugger. Because we keep telling them that if you see bed bugs on a person or their stuff, it does not mean the bedbugs rode in off the street […]
content rss