The city’s new flu portal
http://www.nyc.gov/flu This is one of the things we would want for bed bugs. I say this with humility. I know these are two different public health problems. And there are no comparable resources.
Tag: NYC
The NYC Health Department regresses
This year we saw small signs of what I thought was a new empathetic and knowledgeable grasp of the bed bug issues by NYC public health officials.
John Jay’s bed bug “condition”
Via City Room. John Jay College of Criminal Justice has closed the North Hall building and will hold an information session today at 2 p.m., open to the public.
New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board
The members of the Bed Bug Advisory Board have been appointed and will meet this week. The Mayor appointed Gil Bloom of Standard Pest Management, Richard Cooper of Cooper Pest Solutions, and Jody L. Gangloff-Kaufmann of the NY State IPM … Continue reading
Lou Sorkin, Susan Jones and Michael Potter hit it out of the park
In the NYT’s Room for Debate. Go, go read for yourself. It occurs to me, wherever you live, if you are struggling to make someone, anyone, a city agency perhaps, understand what bed bugs are all about, this could be … Continue reading
NYT on pervasive bed bug problem in NYC co-ops and condos
I thought The New York Times had forgotten all about the bed bug issues, but an article in this weekend’s real estate section by Teri Karush Rogers, about co-op and condo buyers and their bed bug problems and bed bug … Continue reading
Wherever they fit
The New Yorker’s Book Bench wonders about bed bugs in books. Lou Sorkin’s answer: “Bedbugs will be wherever they fit,” he said. “I’ve found them on wood, metal, plastic surfaces, electronics, electric clocks, laptops, cell phones, stereos, clothing, bathroom tile, … Continue reading
The bed bugs on the mattresses that no one is responsible for
Update: new Department of Sanitation rule in effect December 2010 plus other news in mattresses here.
The New York Post losing its touch?
I’m impressed by the nearly sober headline: Bedbugs in the Court! What happened to the blood bug invasion of old?
“We have formed a tenants committee”
Yes! Check this out. I noticed this building because it strikes me that the story told by these reports over a period of 7-8 months is the story of bed bugs in our city.