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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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 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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Posted in NYC, New York, bed bugs, tagged bed bugs, bedbugs, California, mattress oven, mattress sterilization, mattresses, Nevada, New York, NYC, reconditioned mattresses, used bedding on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Let’s recap what we learned this week:
The New York Department of State has said that it does not intend to publish mattress sanitizing regulations because doing so would constitute an effective ban on reconditioned mattresses.
The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs believes that poor New Yorkers—those who are least able to afford illness or the costs [...]
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Posted in NYC, New York, bed bugs, news, tagged bed bugs, bedbugs, Dateline, Jeff White, mattresses, New York, NYC, Pepe Peruyero, reconditioned mattresses, Rick Cooper, used bedding on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dateline’s investigative piece today revisited the reconditioned mattress problems in New York City.
In 1996, 19 states had laws in place regulating the sale of reconditioned mattresses. This year that number is up to 26. We started our investigation in New York, where state law requires them to be labeled clearly with yellow tags [...]
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Posted in HPD, NYC, New York, bed bugs, seminars, tagged bed bug seminars, bed bugs, bedbugs, Brooklyn, Greenpoint Church, HPD, NYC on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The next Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) bed bug seminar will be held in Greenpoint.
Tuesday May 6, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The Greenpoint Reformed Church
136 Milton Street
Broooklyn, NY 11222
RSVP (HPD): (212) 863-8830
New York vs. Bed Bugs founding members are coming to Greenpoint for good bed bug learnin’, to meet good [...]
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Posted in DOHMH, NYC, New York, bed bugs, tagged bed bugs, bedbugs, disease transmission, DOHMH, health, New York, NYC, public health on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
We want to review the pest management challenges posed by bed bugs, and give you a clear idea of where we stand on possible policy approaches and solutions, but there is yet one more thing to get out of the way: the question of whether bed bugs, which are not known to be vectors of [...]
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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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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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Posted in HPD, NYCHA, statistics, tagged bed bugs, NYC, press on March 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This is how New York City’s bed bug statistics have appeared in recent press articles:
Daily News, Douglas Feiden, December 30, 2007:
In the fiscal year that ended in June, 6,889 infestation complaints were logged and 2,008 building owners were hit with summonses.
and
Those travel patterns [bed bugs hitchhiking on clothing, etc.] account for the 1,708 verified bedbug [...]
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