Tag: NYC
NYC’s Bed Bug Advisory Board: the Mayor’s press release
The Mayor signed Int. 57-A yesterday. This is the press release:
What is happening to the bed bugs in NYCHA properties?
The New York City Housing Authority cannot keep up with the bed bug complaints in its properties. Consider the numbers:
What we need is true collaboration
What appears so effortless and natural in other cities has to be legislated in our own. No matter, we can do this too. And we will. But our first hope is that our city agencies will truly collaborate with each … Continue reading
Mayor will sign bed bug advisory board bill on March 18
So, this is really happening. Mayor Bloomberg will sign New York City’s bed bug advisory board legislation on Wednesday, March 18, at 3:30 p.m. in the press briefing room, the Blue Room, at City Hall.
A bed bug advisory board for New York City
Dear friends, we share the following announcement from Council Member Gale Brewer, and we do so not without some feeling. So, our discussion of our thoughts and hopes for the advisory board will come later. For now, some modest celebrating … Continue reading
The am New York cover
If, like me, you missed Wednesday’s am New York, they have PDFs available and you can download the February 25 issue:
Psst, CBS: there is no bed bug task force
In their puzzlingly titled piece, Despite Task Force, NYC Bedbug Complaints Way Up, well, we just don’t know where this is coming from:
The 18th, 19th and 20th sponsors
We want to thank Council Members Tony Avella, Maria del Carmen Arroyo and James Vacca for their support of the bed bug legislative proposals that will be the subject of the New York City Council hearing on Tuesday.
Giving bed bugs their due
We like this Gale Brewer statement, from her press release announcing a press conference on Tuesday: “It’s great that we’re not smoking as much, and great that we’re not eating trans fats, but we need to focus on bed bugs … Continue reading