The New York Public Library's mid-Manhattan branch either has a small or a big bedbug problem, depending on who you ask. A spokesperson told the Village Voice that they found two bugs, but an anonymous employee reports that they are spot-treating the building, not doing a thorough job. Guess where I just went last week?!
For non-residents, there has been a wave of infestations of commercial buildings recently -- the Time Warner Building in Columbus Circle was hit, as was the giant flagship Hollister, a Victoria's Secret in Harlem, the AMC 25-screen multiplex in Times Square... I personally know two people who have had them this year. Props to Mayor Bloomberg for telling a city councilwoman that "all [his] friends" have them too.
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I hear that all it takes to kill them is to toss them in the dryer (so all your clothes can be disinfected), and, for items too large to fit in the dryer, deprive them of a blood meal for two weeks (i.e., wrap your mattress in plastic).
But I'm sure I'll have a different opinion once the epidemic hits Baltimore.
(I found some bugs in the hamper the other day and just about had a heart attack: but they weren't bed bugs. Something else. Maybe the larval form of those moths that supposedly eat your clothes.)u
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