Bedbugs set to ravage Manhattan while Mayor and DHCR sleeps

New York City is on the verge of having a massive infestation of bedbugs - and the only press we seem to get is when a rich model gets a few bites. Then she runs to the ER and gets prescriptions.

This site is for real information - and BTW, no ads, as it is not set up for me or anyone to make money. I have a serious complaint that affects everyone, and I hope to share information so that the city will take real action against landlords that are the problem.

For instance, there is a hotel that allows hundreds of bedbugs to exist in a single room. It have over 100 rooms. Garbage cans in the halls at the time of this writing are not covered, so rodents rule. They defecate on the wire ceilings of the rooms. One person has been diagnosed with scabies from this place.

Judge Kaplan in Housing Court signed an order for them to fix things, including the ceiling of the complainant, on 10 June 2010. So far no action has been taken, other than to occasionally cover the garbage cans on the third floor.

What does all this mean to New York? It means that hundreds of thousands of bedbugs roam free every year. One female lays up to 400 eggs in her lifetime. 400 x hundreds of thousands and you get the picture. Every day dozens of bedbugs are transported by the residents to other places in NY. 365 x dozens. You get the picture. 400 x dozens x 365. You get bedbugs.

So what is the city doing? NOTHING. The 311 calls so far only result in this being logged - but the only action taken is that the owner hires a pest company to spray. The next week we get more bugs. Superb Pest Control is the company he uses, and one resident complained the staff were threatening and rude and did not tell him the name of the chemical they were using. Maybe it was water. The bedbugs did not seem to mind.

DHCR, the NYC agency charged with keeping us from getting nasty epidemics from bad buildings, has not solved the problem. It has been clearly pointed out that the bugs reside in the thousands of cracks in the walls and ceilings, and that the wire screen ceilings are especially bad. One resident painted his room to seal the cracks, but since the ceilings and door allows vermin to come in, he was fighting a losing battle. They bite him all night and it makes bloodstains all over the sheets.

This is the future of the city unless Bloomberg and his crew get off their butts and do their job. We will continue to attack any slack city officials on this site until they do their job completely and quarantine such buildings.

But what about the press? Are they going to only report on rich people and their hangouts - like Abercrombie & Fitch - or are they going to pry a journalists off the Linsday Lohan watch and get them to report on something that is serious for a change?

The Post ignored this so far. We will continue to report on the lack of reporting, if we have to stand outside their offices and hand out fliers. And that goes for the mulit-billionaire Mike Bloomberg who is too busy playing golf - we pay him to take care of the city, not play all day like a child. He wants $100 million for new offices downtown? Get real. Stop supporting only your rich friends and do your job.