Posted in NYCHA, New York, bed bugs, news, press, statistics, tagged bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, correction, David Segal, New York, Washington Post on April 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Washington Post has posted a correction:
Correction to This Article
The article about bedbugs said that 500 of the 2,500 bedbug complaints lodged with the New York City Housing Authority between 2005 and 2007 turned out to be actual infestations. After taking a closer look at its records, the authority now says it did not keep [...]
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Posted in HPD, NYC, NYCHA, bed bugs, news, press, statistics, tagged bed bug math, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, correction, David Segal, Washington Post on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This was our letter to the Washington Post last week.
I tried to explain why this matters so much to us here.
We should have been able to reference the YTD numbers which were available in January and made other changes.
There is so much we need to learn—including where to place the ampersand in Department of Housing [...]
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That’s Mr. Howard Marder, public information officer for the New York City Housing Authority.
What I can tell you is that the revised year-end number for 2007 of all bed bug complaints was 1,720 and that our Chief Exterminator says that in his experience about 70% of cases reported there is actual infestation.
Well.
Let’s play bed bug [...]
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We still haven’t heard from New York City Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder.
Surprised, you say?
But we did get a nice email from David Segal wishing us well in our efforts.
We know you want to know why this matters. Why do we care that the Washington Post dismissed the bed bug problem in [...]
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Today we wait for New York City Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder to confirm the numbers cited for public housing infestations in David Segal’s Washington Post piece.
We are rather impatient to hear whether it is indeed true, as Mr. Segal wrote, that there were fewer than 500 actual bed bug infestations in New York City [...]
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