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) […]

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.

Every spring, Time Out New York does an issue on the apartment rental market. The 2008 issue, out this week, features a story where an interior decorator, plumber, and pest control operator go into prospective rental units and inspect them. The “exterminator” (Samuel Soto of First Rate Exterminators) is looking for roaches, rats, […]

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. […]

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 […]

Pillow Fight New York City 2008
Photo uploaded to flickr.com by urbanblitz
In the age of bed bugs, it does not seem that wise for people around the world, in cities like Vancover and New York (pictured here) to have large group pillow fights.
Dave, a participant, is one who realized this after the fact. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]