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By Stephen Duffy 11/16/11 6:24pm

Who Let The Dogs In! Bed Bug Bloodhounds Join HPD Inspection Team

To combat the city's growing bed bug problem, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has gone to the dogs. Say hello to Nemo and Mickey, the latest members of the department's Maintenance Code inspection team. And rather than the vet, the two Beagles were fortunate enough to get their tags—we mean badges—from Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Housing Commissioner Mathew Wambua.

"Awww, look at their little jackets," cooed Ms. Quinn when she first set eyes on the dogs. Read More

1 By Drew Grant 10/24/11 3:38pm

Street Art

You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave

Bed Bug Hotels: Creepy-Crawly Street Art Doubles As Public Service Announcement

Earlier this year, Hunter Fine and his friend Jeff Greenspan gained some viral notoriety for their street art: starting with "Hipster Traps" (where PBR and goofy sunglasses were set as bait inside a cardboard bear trap) in New York City, the two soon expanded their repertoire to include "Tea Party Traps" and "Bridge and Tunnel Traps."

Now Mr. Fine is working solo on a new kind of public service, one that alerts new residents that their LES apartment may actually be a front for a bed bug hotel.
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By Matt Chaban 1/07/11 5:41pm

Creepy Crawlies

New York Has the Worst Bed Bugs, According to Taiwanese CGI Jockeys

New York tops the list of U.S. cities with the worst bed bugs, followed by Chicago, Detroit, Columbus and Cincinnati, according to surveys by exterminators.

How did we find this out? From only the finest news source in the land, Next Media Animations.

The Taiwanese CGI specialists have a thing for our bed bug problem, having Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/02/10 4:07pm

Not Letting Them Bite

Best Present of the Season? A Bed Bug-Free Apartment

The holidays can be stressful, emotionally draining and certainly freezing cold. But imagine if, on top of everything, your apartment was terrorized by tiny, bloodthirsty bed bugs. And naturally you're broke, so there's nothing you can do about it. Just the worst, right?

Well guess what! You may not have to spend this Christmas hunkering down Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/16/10 8:51pm

Second Careers

Failed New York Actors Become Successful New York Bed Bug Hunters

New York has always been home to failed actors and actresses. The story is an age-old cliche: a fresh face comes from the midwest, auditions endlessly, but can't quite make it. So what do all the sad young thespians do to pay the rent these days? Well, it looks like they hunt bed bugs.

The Wall Read More

By The Editors 10/26/10 6:08pm

ROUND 'EM UP

In Other News: Columbia B-Schoolers=Dirty Messes?

You knew this day was coming. Bedbugs at Carnegie Hall. Insert obligatory "practice" joke.

Columbia Business School students apparently have issues with personal hygiene. Bunch a hippies. No jobs left for those of you who don't get "professional haircuts."

What if Obama made avant garde web videos?

RIP Paul the Sooth-Sliming Octopus. You will Read More

By Matt Chaban 10/22/10 12:57pm

Bloodsuckers

Arachnophobia: CGI Bed Bugs Overrun America [Video]

For those once bitten, you might want to think twice about hitting play. Our friends in Taiwan, who did such great work with Carl Paladino's campaign, have a new video out just in time for Halloween.

Who needs Saw 3D when you have Bedbugs Take Over USA. Granted everything in the video seems to take Read More

1 By Steve Huff 9/08/10 9:39pm

Wildlife

The Coyotes of Westchester County

The bed bug's dominance over the scary nature news cycle has begun to wane, but don't worry--looks like we'll have coyotes to take up the slack. Police in Rye Brook killed a rabid coyote last Sunday. This was no charming but hapless rogue from the desert southwest searching out eternally elusive roadrunner Read More

By Steve Huff 8/31/10 6:27pm

Bed Bugs Could [NOT!] Eat the Toronto Film Festival (Updated)

The Scotiabank Theatre will be the central venue for screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins Sept. 9. Hopefully, it will be clear of bed bugs by then. The Hollywood Reporter caught this tell-tale tweet about the itch-inducing pests from TIFF's co-director, Cameron Bailey: "Before bed bugs becomes today's Read More

By William Alden 8/05/10 4:35pm

Brand Loyalty

Abercrombie and Hollister Shoppers Don’t Care About Bed Bugs

Prepsters and surfers aren't letting a few bed bugs influence their choices in fashion. Revenues at Abercrombie & Fitch and its subsidiary Hollister rose in July, the Times reports, apparently despite bed bug scares at their Manhattan stores at the beginning of that month.

"I'm not buying their clothes anymore," a shopper told Read More

By Dana Rubinstein 3/11/10 8:29pm

They’re Baa-ack! Bed Bugs Strike Again at Vornado’s Hotel Penn, Lawsuit Says

New York City's bed bug scourge continues to wreak pain, fear, high extermination expenses, and the occasional overblown lawsuit against real estate moguls.

A Massachusetts woman has sued Vornado Realty Trust, claiming that her September 2009 stay at the Hotel Pennyslvania caused her to “to be bitten by bugs in the bed and/or premises provided by defendants."

The rather Read More

By Emily Geminder 3/02/10 12:50pm

Bug Zapper Stretches Into Entire Floor at Kaufman’s 212 West 35th

Bedbugs, New York's near epidemic plague du jour, is at least good news for the various boutique extermination endeavors chewing their way across the city. Among them is Stop Pest Control, centrally located in the garment district. After outgrowing its 3,600-square-foot space at 212 West 35th Street, the company is now taking the building's Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 8/21/09 7:50pm

Bedbugs at the Penguin Building: What Will Become of All Their Books?

The Penguin building has a bedbug infestation, as Gawker reported earlier this afternoon. Management sent a memo out to staff yesterday warning them of “an insect issue in certain areas” on several floors. Staff were instructed to vacate the building by 1 p.m. today and not return until Monday while pest control goes in and Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 5/30/08 3:23pm

Bedbugs Can Spark Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Expert Says

Yesterday we wrote about the suit a thrice bedbug-bitten former Fox News employee filed against the owner and maintenance company of News Corp.'s headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. We were skeptical of Joan Clark’s claim in the New York Supreme Court lawsuit that she suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following three separate Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 5/29/08 5:57pm

Lawyer for 1211 Avenue of the Americas Bedbug Plaintiff: ‘It Comes From Foreigners’

The lawyer for a bedbug-bitten Fox News employee suing the landlord and maintenance company of 1211 Avenue of the Americas today blamed his client's condition on foreign visitors to New York.

“My position is that it comes from foreigners,” Mr. Schnurman told The Observer. “Because it became so inexpensive for foreigners to travel here, I Read More

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Bed Bugs

Who Let The Dogs In! Bed Bug Bloodhounds Join HPD Inspection Team

Bed Bug Hotels: Creepy-Crawly Street Art Doubles As Public Service Announcement

New York Has the Worst Bed Bugs, According to Taiwanese CGI Jockeys

Best Present of the Season? A Bed Bug-Free Apartment

Failed New York Actors Become Successful New York Bed Bug Hunters

In Other News: Columbia B-Schoolers=Dirty Messes?

Arachnophobia: CGI Bed Bugs Overrun America [Video]

The Coyotes of Westchester County

Bed Bugs Could [NOT!] Eat the Toronto Film Festival (Updated)

Abercrombie and Hollister Shoppers Don’t Care About Bed Bugs

They’re Baa-ack! Bed Bugs Strike Again at Vornado’s Hotel Penn, Lawsuit Says

Bug Zapper Stretches Into Entire Floor at Kaufman’s 212 West 35th

Bedbugs at the Penguin Building: What Will Become of All Their Books?

Bedbugs Can Spark Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Expert Says

Lawyer for 1211 Avenue of the Americas Bedbug Plaintiff: ‘It Comes From Foreigners’

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