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bed bugs in Greenpoint (NYC), Stamford (CT), Glenwood Springs (CO), and the Internets (.com) »

Slightly delayed news round-up:
newyorkshitty.com » ‘Tis The Season: Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite!
miss heather of newyorkshitty.com shares a current photo of suspected bed bug refuse at the Astral Apartments in Greenpoint, and shares an article from exactly 121 years ago, decrying the need for “quality affordable housing”, free of vermin.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Valley […]

More from Cincinnati: senior housing complex »

According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]

More bad news about Denver’s bed bug-infested Halcyon House »

The bed-bug-infested building which houses mostly elderly and disabled tenants in Denver, Halcyon House, was in the news again today.
Ivan Moreno reports for the Rocky Mountain News that the court date finally arrived; the owners sent an attorney to represent them (they’re in Maine), and they were fined $41 for “failing to spray […]

More on Denver’s Halcyon House and bed bugs »

Thanks to Hopelessnomo for the link.
Rocky Mountain News Service has an article today by a journalist whose friend Steve is a quadriplegic living in Halcyon House, with bed bugs. It may be the worst thing I’ve read about bed bugs, period. The building has all kinds of other problems, which are horrific in […]

Denver’s elderly, disabled, fight bed bug Shaq attack »

This one is going to break your heart, and piss you off. The Rocky Mountain News reported Friday on a Denver infestation in a 197-unit building called Halcyon House that houses disabled and elderly people in affordable units. Nasty, badly kept, bed bug-infested affordable units (oh, and did I mention the plumbing was […]

Snapshot: a few hours of Bedbugger.com visitors tells us something about the spread »

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 […]

bedbugs in Denver »

bed bug
Originally uploaded by earmuffin.

This is a picture on flickr that earmuffin took, and the location is given as the Beltz / McGowan apartments in August 2005. Ahhhh, August 2005. I remember it well: it was too hot in NYC, but I had never heard of bedbugs. Good times.
Not […]