Rebecca Spitz reports for NY1 on Housing Court Judge Sheldon Halprin’s hands-on approach:
Housing court Judge Sheldon Halprin took a tour of a three-building complex on West 145 Street in Manhattan Wednesday.
“We have no shower, wooden floors where we get maggots and bedbugs. We had to throw out all our furniture,” said tenant Eileen Caraballo.
Throwing out [...]
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So, I guess our earlier DDT post was too lighthearted. Please bear with us; we’re learning. This is actually a very serious subject. I hate to see people in our bed bug community wasting their precious resources of energy and time on the idea that DDT could once again be a [...]
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If you want a simple way to join our discussions, we’re starting a google group:
New York vs Bed Bugs
Visit this group
We’ll update everyone on what we’re doing and look forward to your input.
Thanks again to everyone who is sending letters for our campaign [...]
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We had a great conversation with UK bed bug specialist David Cain last week and the transcript is finally available.
Here are some of the highlights.
On the practical difficulties of inspecting adjoining properties when only one tenant is the client:
In the initial phase we have no choice but to treat individual apartments as one-off infestations. So, [...]
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The educator from HPD, who lead the seminar, gave a very good presentation. He presented clear illustrations. He was warm and gracious. He kept the audience engaged and alert by asking questions and inviting us to answer. It was especially impressive how he graciously handled audience members questioning some of the items he presented, and [...]
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If you are too overwhelmed by bed bugs to write letters or make phone calls to your elected representatives to support our campaign for a bed bug task force, please visit our CitizenSpeak page. You can enter your name and address and a letter we have written for you will be sent to select [...]
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We are really very happy to have attended the Greenpoint bed bug seminar this evening. Thanks to HPD and Mr. Edward Brownbear who conducted the seminar. Miss Heather and Pastor Ann Kansfield get our heartfelt thanks for organizing the evening; it is very inspiring to see people who want to protect their neighborhood, [...]
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We had major technical difficulties during our live interview with David Cain this morning so we won’t post the podcast; instead, here is an edited transcript of the interview.
We did, however, shamelessly guilt David into agreeing to another guest appearance in a future talkcast and so we’ll make sure next time to have him seated [...]
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We need help from New Yorkers interested in helping advocate for change. We need help from New Yorkers who are suffering from bed bugs or who have suffered from bed bugs in the past to write letters to their elected representatives.
And we also need help from those who can volunteer time to our efforts. [...]
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We are very happy to announce that David Cain of Bed Bugs Limited (UK) has generously agreed to be our guest for the very first New York vs. Bed Bugs talkcast.
This will happen next Tuesday, May 6 at 9 a.m.
Feel free to listen in as we record the interview live. Live? Fun!
We are [...]
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